“That, being redeemed and quickened by the blood of Christ, we ought to prefer nothing to Christ. ...Moreover, the Apostle Paul says: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, Because for Thy sake we are…”
Cyprian, 3th c. — Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus
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15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
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13For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
— 2 Corinthians 5:15 —
16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.