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When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.

For there is no partiality with God.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.