“For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died.” 2 Corinthians 5:14 (ESV)
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6 (English Standard Version)
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud…
“And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.” 1 John 2:17 (English Standard Version)
“It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant.” Matthew 20:26 (English Standard Version)
“And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore,…
“’Do you understand what you are reading?’ And he said, ‘How can I, unless someone guides me?’” Acts 8:30,31 (English Standard Version)
“Because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal…
“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in…