…those who live to please the Spirit
will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.
So let’s not get tired of doing what is good.
At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing
if we don’t give up.

…those who live to please the Spirit
will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.
So let’s not get tired of doing what is good.
At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing
if we don’t give up.
Since we are living by the Spirit,
let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.
But when the right time came,
God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law,
so that he could adopt us as his very own children.
How foolish can you be?
After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit,
why are you now trying to become perfect
by your own human effort?
…Christ lives in me.
So I live in this earthly body
by trusting in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
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.
Just as everyone dies
because we all belong to Adam,
everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life.
But there is an order to this resurrection:
Christ was raised as the first of the harvest;
then all who belong to Christ will be raised
when he comes back.
…Christ died for our sins,
just as the Scriptures said.
He was buried,
and he was raised from the dead on the third day,
just as the Scriptures 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…
(Building in Wertheim, Germany built with smaller first floor because taxes were assessed on ground measurements)
Now we see things imperfectly,
like puzzling reflections in a mirror,
but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.
All that I know now is partial and incomplete,
but then I will know everything completely,
just as God now knows me completely.