Isaiah 53:6

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

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

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

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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

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

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

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,

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

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?

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

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,

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

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.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

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

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.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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.

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.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

“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.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

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

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

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

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

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.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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

Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

“ ‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh.

He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

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