And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by the Spirit, and set me in the midst of the plain, and it was full of human bones.

And He said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? And I said, O Lord God, [only] You know this!

Thus says the Lord to these bones: Behold, I [will] bring upon you the breath of life;

So I prophesied as [the Lord] commanded me. And it came to pass while I was prophesying, that behold, [there was] a rattling, and the bones approached each one to his joint.

And He said to me, Prophesy to the wind; prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord: Come from the four winds, [O breath,] and breathe upon these dead, that they may live.

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

for this my son was dead and came to life, and he was lost and was found.' And they began to be merry.

But it was necessary to be merry and to rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.'"

nor present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, so that they who live should live no longer for themselves, but for the [One] who died for them and rose again.

And you [He made alive], being dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

But she who is living for pleasure is dead while she lives.

Therefore, leaving the subject of the beginning of Christ, let us be moved to perfection, not again laying down a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

by how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order that we might serve the living God?

Thus also that faith, if it does not have works, is dead, [being] by itself

But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh--who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made by hands in the flesh--

What many and great afflictions have You shown me! Yet You turned and revived me, and brought me again from the depths of the earth.

This has comforted me in my affliction; for Your word has revived me.

For as the Father raises up the dead and gives life, thus also the Son gives life to whom He wills.

It is the Spirit who makes alive; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

(just as it is written, "I have appointed you a father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, the [One] who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were;

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit indwelling in you.

Fool, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

Thus also it is written, "The first man Adam [became] a living soul;" the last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

who also has made us efficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

I charge you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

[A Psalm] of instruction by David. Blessed [are they] whose transgressions are forgiven, and who sins are covered.

And come, let us reason together, says the Lord; and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make [them] white as wool.

let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.

And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.

Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this Man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

and from all things from which you could not (by the Law of Moses) be justified, by Him everyone that believes is justified.

that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning their transgressions to them, and committing to us the word of this reconciliation.

For this is the covenant which I shall covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind, and I shall inscribe them upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I shall by no means remember anymore."

But if we are walking in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you on account of His name.