Luke 9:60

WEB

⁶⁰But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

KJV

⁶⁰Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

BSB

⁶⁰But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

FBV

⁶⁰“Let the dead bury their own dead,” Jesus replied. “You go and proclaim God's kingdom.”

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2 Timothy 2:3-4

³You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

1 Timothy 5:6

⁶But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

¹⁶He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

¹⁷He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Revelation 3:1

¹“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Luke 15:32

³²But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

2 Timothy 4:2

²preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

2 Timothy 4:5

⁵But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

1 Corinthians 9:16

¹⁶For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

Ephesians 2:1

¹You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

2 Corinthians 5:16-18

¹⁶Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. ¹⁷Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold,^[+] all things have become new. ¹⁸But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;