And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.