From death to life

 We know that we have passed from death to life. 1

You were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. 2

The law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. 4

But the Spirit gives life. 5 Inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 6 God has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 7

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life – 8 eternal life to which you were called, 9 life that is truly life, 10 life that is in Christ Jesus. 11

 

1 1Jn 3.14 2 Eph 2.1-5 3 Rom 8.2 4 Rom 5.12 5 2Cor 3.6 6 2Cor 4.16 7 2Pet 1.4 8 Rom 6.13 9 1Tim 6.12 10 1Tim 6.19 11 2Tim 1.1