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So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.

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God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

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highlighted Numbers 6:24-26 NLT

‘May the LORD bless you and protect you.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:42 NLT

It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.

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highlighted Psalms 84:1 NLT

How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

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highlighted Psalms 84:2 NLT

I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the courts of the LORD. With my whole being, body and soul, I will shout joyfully to the living God.

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highlighted Psalms 84:3 NLT

Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young at a place near your altar, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, my King and my God!

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highlighted Psalms 84:4 NLT

What joy for those who can live in your house, always singing your praises. Interlude

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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.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:44 NLT

They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:40 NLT

There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:39 NLT

Similarly there are different kinds of flesh—one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:29 NLT

If the dead will not be raised, what point is there in people being baptized for those who are dead? Why do it unless the dead will someday rise again?

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:28 NLT

Then, when all things are under his authority, the Son will put himself under God’s authority, so that God, who gave his Son authority over all things, will be utterly supreme over everything everywhere.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:27 NLT

For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.” (Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” that does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.)

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:26 NLT

And the last enemy to be destroyed is death.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:23 NLT

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.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:22 NLT

Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life.

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 15:19-20 NLT

And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.

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highlighted John 14:16 NLT

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.

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