Giving Life

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — 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.

They prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen — read the full passage →

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. — read the full passage →

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. — read the full passage →

After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. — 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.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

They prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. — read the full passage →

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” — read the full passage →

But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, — read the full passage →

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, — read the full passage →

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

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.

I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.” — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”

You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” — read the full passage →

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, — read the full passage →

Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people. — read the full passage →