Ephesians 2:16

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.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

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—

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

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

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

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.

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

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

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

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

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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,

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

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.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

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

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

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.

and having a great priest over God’s house,

No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

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.

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.

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

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.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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

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.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.

“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.

and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

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;

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

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.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

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.