When ¹  they had heard my case, ²  they wanted to release me, ³  because there was no basis for a death sentence ⁴  against me.

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. ¹ 

We know ¹  that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die ²  again; death no longer has mastery over him.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

So what benefit ¹  did you then reap ²  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

For when we were in the flesh, ¹  the sinful desires, ²  aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body ³  to bear fruit for death.

For the law of the life-giving Spirit ¹  in Christ Jesus has set you ²  free from the law of sin and death.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will ¹  die), ²  but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹ 

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, ¹  nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as ¹  my boasting in you, ²  which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, ¹  so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible ²  in our body.

For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.

My aim is to know him, ¹  to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, ²  and to be like him in his death,

but now he has reconciled you ¹  by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: ¹  sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, ²  evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.