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Colossians 3:3

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

For you died, and your Life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God.

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At that same time Jesus uttered the words: "I thank thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that, though thou has hidden these things from the wise and learned, thou hast revealed them to the child-like!

In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me; because I am living, you will be living also.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.

But whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst any more; but the water that I will give him shall become a spring welling up within him--a source of Immortal Life."

For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them Life, so also the Son gives Life to whom he pleases.

In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life.

And, though it is those very Scriptures that bear testimony to me, you refuse to come to me to have life.

For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, shall we be saved by virtue of Christ's Life.

In order than, just as Sin had reigned in the realm of Death, so, too, might Loving-kindness reign through righteousness, and result in Immortal Life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it?

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.

The merely intellectual man rejects the teaching of the Spirit of God; for to him it is mere folly; he cannot grasp it, because it is to be understood only by spiritual insight.

It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;

For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we see.

I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

And to make clear what is God's way of working out that hidden purpose which from the first has been concealed in the mind of the Creator of all things;

Then the Peace of God, which is beyond all human understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and thoughts, through your union with Christ Jesus.

On account of the hope which awaits its fulfillment in Heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true Message of the Good News which reached you--

Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,

Even Christ himself, in whom all treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden.

When the Christ, who is our Life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

And that is why he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, living for ever, as he does, to intercede of their behalf.

but the inner life with the imperishable beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit; for this is very precious in God's sight.

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

Dear friends, we are God's Children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we shall be like Christ; because we shall see him as he is.

Let him who has ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. To him who conquers-- to him I will give a share of the mystic manna, and I will give him a white stone; and on the stone shall be inscribed a new name, which no one knows except him who receives it."




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