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

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; ¹  the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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 you have heard of my former way of life ¹  in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

They are darkened in their understanding, ¹  being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside ¹  the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, ¹  not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others. ² 

even for kings ¹  and all who are in authority, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

Compete well ¹  for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession ²  for ³  in the presence of many witnesses.

I charge you ¹  before God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who made his good confession ²  before Pontius Pilate,

In this way they will save up ¹  a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation ²  for the future and so lay hold of ³  what is truly life.

From Paul, ¹  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to further the promise ²  of life in Christ Jesus,

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please ¹  the one who recruited him.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ¹  but by the power of an indestructible life.

By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, ¹  mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel ²  and gave instructions about his burial. ³ 

You ¹  do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? ²  For you are a puff of smoke ³  that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed – not by perishable things like silver or gold,

For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep ¹  his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

We know that ¹  we have crossed over ²  from death to life ³  because ⁴  we love our fellow Christians. ⁵  The one who does not love remains in death. ⁶