For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands… Now the One Who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, Who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. 2 Corinthians 5:1, 5 But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to Him at all.) And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. Romans 8:9-10 Now it is God Who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” Romans 10:9-11 You also became believers in Christ. That happened when you heard the message of truth. It was the good news about how you could be saved. When you believed, He marked you with a seal. The seal is the Holy Spirit Whom He promised. The Spirit marks us as God’s own. We can now be sure that someday we will receive all that God has promised. That will happen after God sets all of His people completely free. All of those things will bring praise to His glory. Ephesians 1:13-14 But “when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind (humanity) appeared, He saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of His mercy, through the washing of the new birth (by this new birth, we are given His very essence and righteousness) and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior. And so, since we have been justified (declared righteous with His very own pure and absolute sinless righteousness) by His grace (by His favor, wholly undeserved), we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” Titus 3:4-7 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 1 Peter 1:22-23 https://biblegateway/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5%3A1%2C+5%2C+Romans+8%3A9-10%2C+2+Corinthians+1%3A21-22%2C+Romans+10%3A9-11%2C+Ephesians+1%3A13-14%2C+Titus+3%3A4-7%2C+1+Peter+1%3A22-23&version=NIV;NLT
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