He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”
For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.
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