We don’t live for ourselves only, and we don’t die for ourselves only.
As a result, they don’t live the rest of their earthly life following wrong human desires. Instead, they live to do what God wants.
Christ died for everyone so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised again.
Jesus died for us so that we might live with him, whether we are still alive on this earth or whether we have already died.
He gave himself for us to set us free from all wrongdoing and purify us, so that we can be his very own people and be eager to do what is good.
Christ died and came back to life in order to become the Lord of both the dead and the living.
I’m convinced that nothing will ever be able to separate us from God’s love—not death or life, angels or demons, the present or the future, and no powers,