It was a great joy to me in the Lord that your care for me could revive again; for what you lacked was never the care but the chance of showing it.

it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?

I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

Hence I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift which you received when my hands were laid upon you;