Tuesday, February 16

10For 'He who would love life And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.

11Let him turn away from evil and do good; Let him seek peace and pursue it.

12For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.'

13And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good?

14But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. 'And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.'

15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

16having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

17For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

19by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

20who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

21There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

18Then some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him; and they asked Him, saying:

19'Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, and leaves his wife behind, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

20Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife; and dying, he left no offspring.

21And the second took her, and he died; nor did he leave any offspring. And the third likewise.

22So the seven had her and left no offspring. Last of all the woman died also.

23Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife.'

24Jesus answered and said to them, 'Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?

25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

26But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.'