Luke 20:38

38Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all alive to him.”

Romans 6:11

11So you also must consider yourselves bdead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 14:7-9

7For cnone of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, dwhether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9For to this end Christ edied and lived again, that he might be Lord both fof the dead and of the living.

2 Corinthians 5:15

15and he died for all, gthat those who live might no longer live for themselves but hfor him who for their sake died and was raised.

1 Peter 4:6

6For this is why ithe gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.

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