Exodus 30:12

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

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

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—

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.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

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?

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

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

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

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

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

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,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,

but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

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.

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

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

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

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

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,”

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

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.

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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.

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

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

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,

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.

They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

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

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.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’ ”

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

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

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