And to the angel of the church in Sardis, write: These things says he that has the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your works, that you have a name, that you live, and are dead.

Even you, being dead to offenses and sins,

made alive with Christ even us, being dead to our offenses, (by grace you are saved,)

And you, being dead to your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all your offenses;

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead, on account of sin, but the Spirit is life, on ac count of righteousness.

But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.

Jesus said: Let the dead bury their own dead; but do you go and publish abroad the kingdom of God.

But if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed among the lost,

Verily, verily I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear, shall live.

for this my son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

But it became us to make merry and rejoice; for this your brother was dead, and is alive again: was lost, and is found.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, rendered active within me every evil desire. For without the law, sin was dead.

For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

and the commandment, which was given for life, I found to be for death.

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of letter, but. of spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

Indeed, I was alive with out the law, once; but when the commandment came, sin be came alive, and I died:

For if the ministering of death, by means of a covenant that was written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the sons of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses, on ac count of the glory of his face, which glory was to come to an end: