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and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
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As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.
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Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.
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but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
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We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
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In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
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But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
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And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
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“or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
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If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
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For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
