and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

“Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

He gave her his hand and helped her get up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.”

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,