A third Salvation bible study

 

Here is yet another salvation bible study bringing the good news of salvation through what Jesus did on the cross. First, the fact remains that all have turned aside and none do right, not even one as stated in Psalm 14

(Psalm 14:1)  To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

 

(Psalm 14:2)  The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

 

(Psalm 14:3)  They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

 

(Psalm 14:4)  Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?

 

(Psalm 14:5)  There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.

 

(Psalm 14:6)  You would shame the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.

 

(Psalm 14:7)  Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

 

Ezekiel chapter 18  brings home forcefully the need to repent from evil and sin because the Lord takes no pleasure in the death of the ungodly but that they would rather turn and repent of their evils.

(Ezekiel 18:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 18:2)  "What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

 

(Ezekiel 18:3)  As I live, declares the Lord GOD, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.

 

(Ezekiel 18:4)  Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

 

(Ezekiel 18:5)  "If a man is righteous and does what is just and right--

 

(Ezekiel 18:6)  if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,

 

(Ezekiel 18:7)  does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

 

(Ezekiel 18:8)  does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,

 

(Ezekiel 18:9)  walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully--he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 18:10)  "If he fathers a son who is violent, a shedder of blood, who does any of these things

 

(Ezekiel 18:11)  (though he himself did none of these things), who even eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor's wife,

 

(Ezekiel 18:12)  oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

 

(Ezekiel 18:13)  lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

 

(Ezekiel 18:14)  "Now suppose this man fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has done; he sees, and does not do likewise:

 

(Ezekiel 18:15)  he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife,

 

(Ezekiel 18:16)  does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

 

(Ezekiel 18:17)  withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.

 

(Ezekiel 18:18)  As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.

 

(Ezekiel 18:19)  "Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.

 

(Ezekiel 18:20)  The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

 

(Ezekiel 18:21)  "But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

 

(Ezekiel 18:22)  None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live.

 

(Ezekiel 18:23)  Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?

 

(Ezekiel 18:24)  But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.

 

(Ezekiel 18:25)  "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

 

(Ezekiel 18:26)  When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.

 

(Ezekiel 18:27)  Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.

 

(Ezekiel 18:28)  Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

 

(Ezekiel 18:29)  Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

 

(Ezekiel 18:30)  "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.

 

(Ezekiel 18:31)  Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

 

(Ezekiel 18:32)  For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live."

 

My first chapter is Romans chapter 3 which explains that all have fallen short of God’s glory, and that none have done right but people can get the free gift of God through Jesus

(Romans 3:1)  What then is the superiority of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

 

(Romans3:2)  Much in every way! First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

 

(Romans 3:3)  For what if some did not believe? Surely their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God?

 

(Romans 3:4)  Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar, just as it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, and You may overcome when You are judged."

 

(Romans 3:5)  But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Surely God, the One inflicting wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I speak as a man.)

 

(Romans 3:6)  Certainly not! For otherwise how shall God judge the world?

 

(Romans 3:7)  For if by my lie the truth of God has abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

 

(Romans 3:8)  And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come"?--just as we are slandered, and just as some affirm that we say. The judgment of whom is just.

 

(Romans 3:9)  What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

 

(Romans 3:10)  Just as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one,

 

(Romans 3:11)  There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

 

(Romans 3:12)  All have turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not one doing kindness, there is not so much as one."

 

(Romans 3:13)  "Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " the poison of asps is under their lips";

 

(Romans 3:14)  "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

 

(Romans 3:15)  Their feet are swift to shed blood;

 

(Romans 3:16)  Ruin and misery are in their ways;

 

(Romans 3:17)  And the way of peace they did not know.

 

(Romans 3:18)  There is no fear of God before their eyes."

 

(Romans 3:19)  Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

 

(Romans 3:20)  Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

 

(Romans 3:21)  But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets,

 

(Romans 3:22)  even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;

 

(Romans 3:23)  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

 

(Romans 3:24)  being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

 

(Romans 3:25)  whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins having previously occurred, in the forbearance of God,

 

(Romans 3:26)  for a demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

 

(Romans 3:27)  Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

 

(Romans 3:28)  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

 

(Romans 3:29)  Or is He the God of the Jews only? But is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles,

 

(Romans 3:30)  since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

 

(Romans 3:31)  Therefore do we nullify the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

 

Romans chapter 6 then drives home the point that we are not to sin after receiving grace but also that the wages of sin are death, but the gift of salvation comes through Jesus

(Romans 6:1)  What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

 

(Romans 6:2)  By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

 

(Romans 6:3)  Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

 

(Romans 6:4)  We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

 

(Romans 6:5)  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.

 

(Romans 6:6)  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 enslaved to sin.

 

(Romans 6:7)  For one who has died has been set free from sin.

 

(Romans 6:8)  Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

 

(Romans 6:9)  We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

 

(Romans 6:10)  For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.

 

(Romans 6:11)  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

 

(Romans 6:12)  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

 

(Romans 6:13)  Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

 

(Romans 6:14)  For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

 

(Romans 6:15)  What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

 

(Romans 6:16)  Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

 

(Romans 6:17)  But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

 

(Romans 6:18)  and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

 

(Romans 6:19)  I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

 

(Romans 6:20)  For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

 

(Romans 6:21)  But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

 

(Romans 6:22)  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

 

(Romans 6:23)  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Next John chapter 3 states that we must all be born again to see the kingdom of God and heaven, and also God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life in Him all in the powerful discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus, who came to Jesus at night to question Him on things

(John 3:1)  Now there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

 

(John 3:2)  This man came to Him by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."

 

(John 3:3)  Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

 

(John 3:4)  Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born, being old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

 

(John 3:5)  Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

 

(John 3:6)  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

 

(John 3:7)  Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

 

(John 3:8)  "The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know from where it comes and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit."

 

(John 3:9)  Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"

 

(John 3:10)  Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

 

(John 3:11)  Most assuredly I say to you, that which We know, We speak, and that which We have seen, We bear witness to, and you do not receive Our witness.

 

(John 3:12)  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

 

(John 3:13)  And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

 

(John 3:14)  And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

 

(John 3:15)  that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

 

(John 3:16)  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

 

(John 3:17)  For God did not send His Son into the world so that He might condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

 

(John 3:18)  He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

 

(John 3:19)  And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

 

(John 3:20)  For everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

 

(John 3:21)  But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

 

(John 3:22)  After these things Jesus, along with His disciples, came into the land of Judea, and there He was stayed with them and He was baptizing.

 

(John 3:23)  Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salem, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

 

(John 3:24)  For John was not yet cast into prison.

 

(John 3:25)  Then there came to be a dispute between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.

 

(John 3:26)  And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified--behold, this Man is baptizing, and all men are coming to Him!"

 

(John 3:27)  John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

 

(John 3:28)  You yourselves bear witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before Him.'

 

(John 3:29)  "He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. Therefore my joy has been fulfilled.

 

(John 3:30)  He must increase, but I must decrease.

 

(John 3:31)  He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

 

(John 3:32)  And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

 

(John 3:33)  He who receives His testimony has certified that God is true.

 

(John 3:34)  For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

 

(John 3:35)  The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

 

(John 3:36)  He who believes in the Son has eternal life; and he who does not believe the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."

 

John chapter 10 is where Jesus speaks how He is the door and the good shepherd and His sheep follow Him and how He will give His life for His sheep and give them eternal life.

(John 10:1)  "Most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

 

(John 10:2)  But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

 

(John 10:3)  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out.

 

(John 10:4)  And whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

 

(John 10:5)  But they will by no means follow a stranger, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

 

(John 10:6)  This illustration Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

 

(John 10:7)  Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

 

(John 10:8)  All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

 

(John 10:9)  I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

 

(John 10:10)  The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

 

(John 10:11)  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:12)  But a hired hand, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

 

(John 10:13)  But the hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and is not concerned about the sheep.

 

(John 10:14)  I am the good shepherd; and I know My own, and I am known by My own.

 

(John 10:15)  Just as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:16)  And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; those also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

 

(John 10:17)  Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it up again.

 

(John 10:18)  No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I have received from My Father."

 

(John 10:19)  Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

 

(John 10:20)  And many of them said, "He has a demon and is raving mad. Why do you listen to Him?"

 

(John 10:21)  Others said, "These are not the words of one being demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

 

(John 10:22)  Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

 

(John 10:23)  And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's Porch.

 

(John 10:24)  Then the Jews encircled Him and said to Him, "How long will You hold us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."

 

(John 10:25)  Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, these things testify about Me.

 

(John 10:26)  But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, just as I said to you.

 

(John 10:27)  My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

 

(John 10:28)  And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

 

(John 10:29)  My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.

 

(John 10:30)  I and the Father are one."

 

(John 10:31)  Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

 

(John 10:32)  Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

 

(John 10:33)  The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

 

(John 10:34)  Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

 

(John 10:35)  If He called those gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

 

(John 10:36)  do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

 

(John 10:37)  If I am not doing the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

 

(John 10:38)  but if I am doing them, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."

 

(John 10:39)  Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, but He escaped from their hand.

 

(John 10:40)  And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He stayed there.

 

(John 10:41)  And many came to Him and said, "John indeed performed no sign, but everything which John said about this Man was true."

 

(John 10:42)  And many believed in Him there

 

Romans chapter 10, the chapter which gives the instructions of salvation, which is to confess Jesus as Lord and believe God raised Him from the dead so you will be saved, has other things too, including that we must hear by the word of God

(Romans 10:1)  Brothers, the good pleasure of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is for their salvation.

 

(Romans 10:2)  For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

 

(Romans 10:3)  For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

 

(Romans 10:4)  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.

 

(Romans 10:5)  For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who does those things shall live by them."

 

(Romans 10:6)  But the righteousness of faith says thus, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven?' " (that is, to bring Christ down)

 

(Romans 10:7)  or, " 'Who shall descend into the abyss?' " (that is, to bring up Christ from the dead).

 

(Romans 10:8)  But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we proclaim):

 

(Romans 10:9)  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

 

(Romans 10:10)  For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.

 

(Romans 10:11)  For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

 

(Romans 10:12)  For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him.

 

(Romans 10:13)  For "whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved."

 

(Romans 10:14)  How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear apart from a preacher?

 

(Romans 10:15)  And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things!"

 

(Romans 10:16)  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

 

(Romans 10:17)  So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 

(Romans 10:18)  But I say, have they not heard? Yes, indeed they have: "Their voice went out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

 

(Romans 10:19)  But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, by an unintelligent nation I will anger you."

 

(Romans 10:20)  But Isaiah is very bold and says: "I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me."

 

(Romans 10:21)  But to Israel he says: "the whole day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

 

1 Corinthians chapter 15 is the resurrection chapter which explains all our hope in our salvation comes from the fact that Jesus did in fact rise up from the dead, for as it explains our hope would be in vain if He had not been raised from His grave after He died and was placed there.

(1 Corinthians 15:1)  Now I made known to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

 

(1 Corinthians 15:2)  through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:3)  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

 

(1 Corinthians 15:4)  and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

 

(1 Corinthians 15:5)  and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:6)  Thereafter He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, of whom the majority remain until now, but some have died.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:7)  Thereafter He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:8)  And last of all, as of one born out of due time, He appeared to me also.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:9)  For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:10)  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:11)  Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:12)  Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

 

(1 Corinthians 15:13)  But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:14)  And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain and your faith also is vain!

 

(1 Corinthians 15:15)  And we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we bore witness concerning God, that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise--if in fact the dead are not raised.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:16)  For if the dead are not raised, then neither has Christ been raised.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:17)  And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins!

 

(1 Corinthians 15:18)  Then also those who have died in Christ have perished.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:19)  If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:20)  But now Christ has been raised from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have died.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:21)  For since by a man death came, also by a Man comes the resurrection of the dead.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:22)  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:23)  But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who belong to Christ at His coming.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:24)  Then will be the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He abolishes every ruler and every authority and power.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:25)  For He must reign till He puts all His enemies under His feet.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:26)  The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:27)  For "He has subjected all things under His feet." But when He says that "all things have been subjected," it is evident that this is except for Him who subjected all things to Him.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:28)  Now when all things are made subject to Him, then also the Son Himself will be subjected to Him who subjected all things to Him, in order that God may be all in all.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:29)  Otherwise, what will they do who are being baptized for the dead, if the dead are not raised at all? Why are they also baptized for the dead?

 

(1 Corinthians 15:30)  And why are we also in danger every hour?

 

(1 Corinthians 15:31)  I affirm, by my boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:32)  If, in the manner of men, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the benefit to me? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

 

(1 Corinthians 15:33)  Do not be deceived: "Evil associations corrupts good habits."

 

(1 Corinthians 15:34)  Awake to righteousness, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:35)  But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"

 

(1 Corinthians 15:36)  Fool, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:37)  And what you sow, you do not sow that body that will be, but a bare grain--perhaps wheat or some other grains.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:38)  But God gives to it a body just as He desired, and to each of the seeds its own body.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:39)  All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is a different kind of flesh for men, and another flesh for beasts, another for fish, and another for birds.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:40)  And there are celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:41)  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:42)  So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:43)  It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:44)  It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:45)  Thus also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living soul;" the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:46)  However, that which is spiritual is not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:47)  The first man was from earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:48)  Like the man made of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:49)  And just as we have borne the image of the man made of dust, let us also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:50)  Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:51)  Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed--

 

(1 Corinthians 15:52)  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:53)  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:54)  So when this corruptible should put on incorruption, and this mortal should put on immortality, then will come to pass the word which was written: "Death was swallowed up in victory."

 

(1 Corinthians 15:55)  "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"

 

(1 Corinthians 15:56)  Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:57)  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:58)  So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

 

I am sure you have now seen enough now to be ready to pray to be saved. I am now including a short prayer that you can say to ensure that you are saved and have eternal life when you die, going to heaven to be with Jesus forever and not end up going to hell.

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

 

God bless you and yours