And so I am thankful and glad, and I feel completely secure,

You will show me the path that leads to life; your presence fills me with joy and brings me pleasure forever.

But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner.

And so I am filled with gladness, and my words are full of joy. And I, mortal though I am, will rest assured in hope,

You have shown me the paths that lead to life, and your presence will fill me with joy.'

He was made a priest, not by human rules and regulations, but through the power of a life which has no end.

And so he is able, now and always, to save those who come to God through him, because he lives forever to plead with God for them.

Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then he sat down at the right side of God.

There he now waits until God puts his enemies as a footstool under his feet.

I am the living one! I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I have authority over death and the world of the dead.

Sin must not be your master; for you do not live under law but under God's grace.

But from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, death ruled over all human beings, even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam did when he disobeyed God's command. Adam was a figure of the one who was to come.

Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death,

and in this way set free those who were slaves all their lives because of their fear of death.