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

⁹ For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

¹⁷ As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

²⁷ If you stop listening to instruction, my son, You will stray from the words of knowledge.

²⁴ Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

¹⁰ Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;'

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

¹⁴ For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own.

¹⁵ If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

¹⁶ But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.