14 So, since those whom God calls his children are all human beings [MTY], Jesus also became a human being just like them. The devil has the power to cause people to be afraid to die, but Christ became human in order that by his dying he might make the devil powerless. 15 Jesus did that to free all of us who are like slaves [MET] all the time we live, because we are forced to be afraid to die.

54 When that happens, what is written {what ◄a prophet/Isaiah► wrote} in the Scriptures will come true/happen:

God will completely get rid of [MET] death. Our dying will no longer have any power to defeat us; 55 Death [APO] will not win a victory over us. Death will not be able to hurt us.

56 It is because we sin [MET] that we die, and it is because we have God’s laws that we know that we have sinned. 57 But because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done, he enables us to be free from having to obey God’s laws to be saved and to be free of being afraid to die. We should thank God for that!

4 So, when we were baptized {someone baptized us}, it was as though we were buried with Christ. We were baptized in order to indicate that we would not let our sinful desires make us do what they want us to do, just like people cannot make a corpse do what they want it to do [MET]. We were baptized to signify that we would continually conduct our lives in a new way, just like Christ was caused to live again in a new way by the great power of God his Father. 5 Because of our close relationship with Christ, we have separated ourselves from the former way in which we conducted our lives, just like he was separated from his physical life when he died [MET]. But God will also certainly enable us to live in a new way, just like he enabled Christ to live again.

24 Listen to this carefully: Those who hear my message and believe that God is the one who sent me have eternal life. God will not ◄condemn them/say that he will punish them►. They are no longer separated from God. Instead, they have eternal life.

25 Jesus said to her, "I am the one who enables people to become alive again and who causes people to live eternally. Those who believe in me, even if they die, will live again.

51 But the truth is that anyone who obeys what I say will never die!"

16 God loved us people [MTY] in the world so much that he gave his only Son as a sacrifice for us, in order that everyone who believes in him would not be separated from God forever. Instead, they would have eternal life.

18 We will not be afraid of God if we truly love him, because those who love God completely cannot possibly be afraid of him. We would be afraid only if we thought that he would punish us. So those who are afraid of God certainly are not loving God completely.

28 Do not be afraid of people who are able to kill your body [SYN] but are not able to destroy your soul. Instead, fear God because he is able to destroy both a person’s body and a person’s soul in hell.

4 Even when I am walking through very dangerous dark ravines

where I might be killed,

I will not be afraid of anything

because you are with me.

You protect me like a shepherd protects his sheep.

He uses his club and his walking stick to protect them from being attacked by wild animals.

4 As a result, he will cause them to no longer be sad. It will be as though he will [MTY] wipe every tear from their eyes. None of them will ever again die or mourn or cry [DOU] or suffer pain, because the former things that make us sad will have disappeared."

10 Do not be afraid of any of the things that you are about to suffer. The truth is that the devil is about to put some of you in prison, to tempt you to deny that you believe in me. For a short period of time you will suffer because of what people will do to you [MTY]. Continue to trust in me, even if they kill you because you trust in me. As a result, I will reward you with eternal life, just like [MET] people reward a victorious athlete by putting a wreath on his head.

2 and now they have peace.

They continually lived righteously,

and now they rest peacefully in their graves.

13 This is just like what the prophet Joel wrote: "All those who ask the Lord God to save them will be saved {The Lord God will save all those who ask him to save them}."

36 Such things may happen to us, just like it is written {as David wrote} that David said to God, "Because we are your (sg) people, other people repeatedly attempt to kill us. They consider that we are only people to be killed, like a butcher considers that sheep are only animals to be slaughtered [MET]." 37 But even though all these bad things may happen to us, we win a great victory/triumph over these things because Christ, who loves us, helps us. 38 I am absolutely certain that neither being dead (OR, being killed), nor what happens to us while we live, nor angels, nor demons, nor present events, nor future events, nor powerful beings/forces, 39 nor powerful beings above the horizon or below the horizon [MTY], nor anything else that God has created can cause God to stop loving us. God showed us that he loves us by sending Jesus Christ our Lord to die for us.