God’s voice is glorious in the thunder.

We can’t even imagine the greatness of his power.

Job 37:5

So the Lord must wait for you to come to him

so he can show you his love and compassion.

For the Lord is a faithful God.

Blessed are those who wait for his help.

Isaiah 30:18

Jesus gave his life for our sins,

just as God our Father planned,

in order to rescue us from this evil world

in which we live.

Galatians 1:4

You made me; you created me.

Now give me the sense to follow your commands.

May all who fear you find in me a cause for joy,

for I have put my hope in your word.

Psalm 119:73-74

But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret.

We will not all die,

but we will all be transformed!

It will happen in a moment,

in the blink of an eye,

when the last trumpet is blown.

For when the trumpet sounds,

those who have died will be raised to live forever.

And we who are living will also be transformed.

Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed

into bodies that will never die,

this Scripture will be fulfilled:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

1 Corinthians 15:51-52; 54-55

And if our hope in Christ is only for this life,

we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.

But in fact,

Christ has been raised from the dead.

He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.

1 Corinthians 15:19-20

…Christ died for our sins,

just as the Scripture said.

He was buried,

and he was raised from the dead on the third day,

just as the Scripture said.

He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve.

After that,

he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time,

most of whom are still alive,

though some have died.

Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles.

1 Corinthians 15:3-7

Love is patient and kind.

Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.

It does not demand its own way.

It is not irritable,

and it keeps no record of being wronged.

It does not rejoice about injustice

but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

Love never gives up,

never loses faith,

is always hopeful,

and endures through every circumstance.

Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages

and special knowledge will become useless.

But love will last forever!

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels,

but didn’t love others,

I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I had the gift of prophecy,

and if I understood all of God’s secret plans

and possessed all knowledge,

and if I had such faith that I could move mountains,

but didn’t love others,

I would be nothing.

If I gave everything I have to the poor 

and even sacrificed my body,

I could boast about it;

but if I didn’t love others,

I would have gained nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

God works in different ways,

but it is the same God

who does the work in all of us.

1 Corinthians 12:6