but let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. for it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with...

rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive. [acts 25:19]   Jesus is alive!   take a moment, pray, thank the Lord that he gave himself up for you....

now when some days had passed, agrippa the king and bernice arrived at caesarea and greeted festus. and as they stayed there many days, festus laid paul's case before the king, saying, “there is a man left prisoner by felix, and when i was at jerusalem, the chief...

paul argued in his defense, “neither against the law of the jews, nor against the temple, nor against caesar have i committed any offense.” but festus, wishing to do the jews a favor, said to paul, “do you wish to go up to jerusalem and there be tried on these charges...

now three days after festus had arrived in the province, he went up to jerusalem from caesarea. and the chief priests and the principal men of the jews laid out their case against paul, and they urged him, asking as a favor against paul that he summon him to...

for if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. we know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be...

1 paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was descended from david according to the flesh 4 and was declared to be...

10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. – [philippians 3:10-11]   do you know Christ, or simply know about...

if then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. when...

but if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. we are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised...