¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead^(A) is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies^(B) because of^[a] his Spirit who lives in you.

¹⁵ More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead.^(A) But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.

³ If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”

³² They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us^(A) while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures^(B) to us?”

¹¹ Then Asa called^(A) to the Lord his God and said, “Lord, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us,^(B) Lord our God, for we rely^(C) on you, and in your name^(D) we have come against this vast army. Lord, you are our God; do not let mere mortals prevail^(E) against you.”

²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand^(A) and of the seven golden lampstands^(B) is this: The seven stars are the angels^[a] of the seven churches,^(C) and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.^(D)

¹⁸ During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley^(A) as a monument^(B) to himself, for he thought, “I have no son^(C) to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.