1 Peter 3:18

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

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.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

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?

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

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.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 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.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

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.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

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

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

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.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

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

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

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

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

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.

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—

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”