Paul both affirms and denies the immortality of man: “Glory and honor and immortality” (Rom. ii, 7). “This mortal must put on immortality” (1 Cor. xv, 53).
“The King of kings, and Lord of lords [Christ]; who only hath immortality” (1 Tim. vi, 15, 16).
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Paul: “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come we are no longer under a schoolmaster” (Gal. iii, 24, 25).
“But now we are delivered from the law” (Rom. vii, 6).
Jesus: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law.... I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law” (Matt. v, 17, 18).
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“We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, ... and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds” (1 Thes., iv, 15–17).