For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
They are planted in the house of the Lord, they flourish in the courts of our God.
He digged it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
He answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
and you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.