Ultimate Sacrifice

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace <FI>is<Fi> on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered--to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God--

so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him--to salvation!

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

Wherefore, also Jesus--that he might sanctify through <FI>his<Fi> own blood the people--without the gate did suffer;

cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed--Christ,

since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested; — read the full passage →

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; — read the full passage →

for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die; — read the full passage →

And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace <FI>is<Fi> on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us. — read the full passage →

neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.

and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see--Jesus--because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

and it shall be, every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.

and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

Desolations <FI>are<Fi> upon them, They go down <FI>to<Fi> Sheol--alive, For wickedness <FI>is<Fi> in their dwelling, in their midst.

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

`And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire--the unquenchable--

and I saw, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb hath stood as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God, which are sent to all the earth,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

having known that, not with corruptible things--silver or gold--were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, — read the full passage →

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name; — read the full passage →

who did give himself a ransom for all--the testimony in its own times--

who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God, — read the full passage →

for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

and he said to them--`Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day, — read the full passage →

And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye--to remembrance of me.' — read the full passage →

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed--he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.

And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace <FI>is<Fi> on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us. — 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 <FI>is<Fi> the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.

and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.'

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose; — read the full passage →

if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin. — read the full passage →

and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

And he said, `A certain man had two sons, — read the full passage →

but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.

And he answering said to them that--`To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where <FI>is<Fi> thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will, — read the full passage →

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love, — read the full passage →

and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, `There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

`When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth;

and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, `What--to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

`And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades shalt be brought down, because if in Sodom had been done the mighty works that were done in thee, it had remained unto this day;

and lo, they cried out, saying, `What--to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'

And he having come to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, there met him two demoniacs, coming forth out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass over by that way,

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. — read the full passage →

And I have been judged with him, With pestilence and with blood, And an overflowing rain and hailstones, Fire and brimstone I rain on him, and on his bands, And on many peoples who <FI>are<Fi> with him.

From the sound of his fall I have caused nations to shake, In My causing him to go down to sheol, With those going down to the pit, And comforted in the earth--the lower part, are all trees of Eden, The choice and the good of Lebanon, All drinking waters.

Only--unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.

A path of life <FI>is<Fi> on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

Give ye thanks to Jehovah--call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts. — read the full passage →

Bless, O my soul, Jehovah! Jehovah, my God, Thou hast been very great, Honour and majesty Thou hast put on. — read the full passage →

For Thy kindness <FI>is<Fi> great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

And it cometh to pass, in the days of Ahasuerus--he <FI>is<Fi> Ahasuerus who is reigning from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces-- — read the full passage →