We too believe and therefore we speak, assured that He Who raised up he Lord Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and bring us along with you into His presence.
And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons,
But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear of God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed by Him.
You know the contents of the message which He sent to Israel, announcing the good news (BEST NEWS EVER) of peace by Jesus Christ, Who is Lord of all-
And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.
Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.
The fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead,and He became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in death.
Through Him you believe in God , Who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him honor and glory, so that your faith and hope rest in God.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
You, however, are controlled not by the sinfull nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefor buried with Him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them.