May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. — read the full passage →
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?” — read the full passage →
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. — read the full passage →
Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; — read the full passage →
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →
Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, — read the full passage →
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.
Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, — read the full passage →
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead. — read the full passage →
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →
Abstain from every form of evil.
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. — read the full passage →
See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”
For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.”
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” — read the full passage →
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”
“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.