Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.

And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

"No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father."

It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, [and] coming in the likeness of men.

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to [the point of] death, even the death of the cross.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

"Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."

"let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

"Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

For [the death] that He died, He died to sin once for all; but [the life] that He lives, He lives to God.

For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

and what [is] the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power

far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,

and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.

"I [am] He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed --

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

"For [his] letters," they say, "[are] weighty and powerful, but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible."

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

[This is] a faithful saying: For if we died with [Him,] We shall also live with [Him.]

If we endure, We shall also reign with [Him.] If we deny [Him,] He also will deny us.

"And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which [comes] through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

For [the death] that He died, He died to sin once for all; but [the life] that He lives, He lives to God.