Luke 3:18

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.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

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

Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

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

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”

It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

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

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

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

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

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—

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,”

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

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,

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.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy 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—

The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.

“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.

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 you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

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.”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

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

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

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.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

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

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.

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.

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,

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

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.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”

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

“Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?

“ ‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.

“On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”

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 have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.