²⁵ “Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.^(A)

²⁸ Do not be astonished at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

¹⁴ for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ^[a]—by grace you have been saved—

²³ But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.^(A)

The Message to Sardis

3 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars:

“I know your works; you have a name of being alive, but you are dead.^(A)

⁴⁷ Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.”^(A)

¹³ And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God^[a] made you^[b] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses,^(A)

From Death to Life

2 You were dead through the trespasses and sins

⁴ Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.^(A)