But God raised him from death,

and for many days he appeared to those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now witnesses for him to the people of Israel.

For he has fixed a day in which he will judge the whole world with justice by means of a man he has chosen. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising that man from death!"

After the Sabbath, as Sunday morning was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

Suddenly there was a violent earthquake; an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled the stone away, and sat on it.

as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death.

They were written also for us who are to be accepted as righteous, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from death.

Because of our sins he was given over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with God.

By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.

And we know that our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin.

Since we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

And so, because he died, sin has no power over him; and now he lives his life in fellowship with God.

If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you.

For Christ died and rose to life in order to be the Lord of the living and of the dead.

I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures;

that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures;

Now, since our message is that Christ has been raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?

and if Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe.

For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.

It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.

But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised.

We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus to life, will also raise us up with Jesus and take us, together with you, into his presence.

God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood, by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from death and gave him glory; and so your faith and hope are fixed on God.