The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: CO1 15:13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ
not risen:
CO1 15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and
your faith is also vain.
CO1 15:15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have
testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so
be that the dead rise not.
CO1 15:16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
CO1 15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet
in your sins.
CO1 15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: faithful.
CO1 7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present
distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
CO1 7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou
loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
CO1 7:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin
marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the
flesh: but I spare you.
CO1 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,
that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
CO1 7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: KI1 20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice
of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall
slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him,
and slew him.
KI1 20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee.
And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
KI1 20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way,
and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
KI1 20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he
said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a
man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if
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