This is a true saying, to be completely accepted and believed: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am the worst of them,

This is a true saying: If a man is eager to be a church leader, he desires an excellent work.

This is a true saying. I want you to give special emphasis to these matters, so that those who believe in God may be concerned with giving their time to doing good deeds, which are good and useful for everyone.

For since we have become one with him in dying as he did, in the same way we shall be one with him by being raised to life as he was.

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

At all times we carry in our mortal bodies the death of Jesus, so that his life also may be seen in our bodies.

So far as the Law is concerned, however, I am dead---killed by the Law itself---in order that I might live for God. I have been put to death with Christ on his cross,

so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Your real life is Christ and when he appears, then you too will appear with him and share his glory!

In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me; and because I live, you also will live.

For even though it was in weakness that he was put to death on the cross, it is by God's power that he lives. In union with him we also are weak; but in our relations with you we shall share God's power in his life.

then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

who died for us in order that we might live together with him, whether we are alive or dead when he comes.