Ultimate Sacrifice

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. — read the full passage →

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. — read the full passage →

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. — read the full passage →

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. — read the full passage →

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—

I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. — read the full passage →

who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, — read the full passage →

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, — read the full passage →

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.” — read the full passage →

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. — read the full passage →

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.”

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. — read the full passage →

but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.Yes, I tell you, fear him.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will; — read the full passage →

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love; — read the full passage →

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. — read the full passage →

With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples. — read the full passage →

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces), — read the full passage →