Then to the angel of the church at Sardis write thus: ??These are the words of him who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your doings, you have the name of being alive, but you are dead.

And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins

he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,

The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness.

Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God."

Even if my gospel is veiled, it is only veiled in the case of the perishing;

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire ??for sin, apart from law, is lifeless.

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

the command that meant life proved death for me.

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory ??so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face;