I passed on to you first of all what I also had received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
That He was buried, that He arose on the third day as the Scriptures toretold, and that He appeared to Peter, then to the Twelve. Then later He showed Himself to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time
We have become fellows with Christ and share in all He has for us, if only we hold our first newborn confidence and original assured expectation firm and unshaken to the end.
Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam (Christ) became a life giving Spirit (restoring the dead to life).
Seek first of all His kingdom and His righteousness, and then all these things will be given you besides.
He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.
Christ is therefore the Mediator of an entirely new agreement so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment or the promised everlasting inheritance.
Nature groans as in labor pains with the
expectation and anticipation of the
manifestation of God’s children.
We also groan with the expectation
of the redemption of our bodies and
our manifestation as God’s children.
Experience the intense, intimate, and extremely rich love
of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit forever.
RISEN WITH CHRIST If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most