knowing that Christ having risen from the dead dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Whether are you ignorant, O brethren, for I speak to those knowing the law, for the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he may live?

of whom are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh. Who is over all, God blessed forever: amen.

Why? Because they sought it not from faith, but as it were from works: they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

not slothful in business; boiling over in spirit; serving the Lord;

And again, Isaiah says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope.

For your obedience has come abroad unto all men: therefore I rejoice over you, and wish you to be wise in that which is good, and uncompromising towards that which is evil.