¹⁰ about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

¹⁴ Then he said, “The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear his own voice;

²⁵ who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

⁷ For whoever has died is freed from sin.

¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

²⁸ so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

¹⁸ For Christ also suffered^[a] for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you^[b] to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

Good Stewards of God’s Grace

4 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh,^[a] arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin),