John 6:63
The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.
John 6:68
Simon Peter answered Him, "To whom can we go, Lord? You have the message that gives eternal life,
1 Corinthians 15:45
This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.
John 12:49-50
This is because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who has sent me has given me orders Himself what to say and what to tell.
Romans 8:2
For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.
Romans 10:8-10
But what does it say? "God's message is close to you, on your very lips and in your heart"; that is, the message about faith which we preach.
Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk where the Spirit leads.
Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing what is told, and hearing through the message about Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:9-14
But, as the Scripture says, they are: "Things which eye has never seen and ear has never heard, and never have occurred to human hearts, which God prepared for those who love Him."
1 Corinthians 11:27-29
So whoever eats the bread and drinks from the Lord's cup in an unworthy way is guilty of sinning against the Lord's body and blood.
2 Corinthians 3:6-8
He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision nor the lack of it has any value, but only a new creation.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For another reason too, we, as far as we are concerned, are constantly giving thanks to God; that is, when you received the message you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which keeps on working in you who believe.
1 Timothy 4:8
Physical training, indeed, is of some service, but religion is of service for everything, for it contains a promise for the present life as well as the future.
Hebrews 4:12
For God's message is alive and full of power in action, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the depths of soul and spirit, to the dividing of joints and marrow, and passing judgment on the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Hebrews 13:9
You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.
James 1:18
In accordance with His will He made us His children by the message of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
1 Peter 1:23
because you have been born anew, not from a germ that perishes but from one that does not perish, by the word of the living and everlasting God.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,
1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, which corresponds to this figure, now saves you, too -- I do not mean the mere removal of physical stains, but the craving for a clear conscience toward God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Romans 2:25
Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.
Romans 3:1-2
What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or, what benefit does circumcision confer?
Galatians 5:6
For in union with Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor lack of it counts for anything; but only faith that is spurred on to action by love.