For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, so that He might be Lord of both the dead and living.
Then Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter His glory?”
Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
The word which He sent to the Israelites, preaching peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all,
He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved,
For the love of Christ constrains us, because we thus judge: that if one died for all, then all have died.
For if we believe that Jesus died and arose again, so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we should live together with Him.
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:
Let us look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Through Him you believe in God who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
They will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
I am He who lives, though I was dead. Behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
“To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: “The First and the Last, who was dead and came to life, says these things: