Matthew 20:28

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.

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

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

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

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

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.

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.

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

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

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.

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

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.

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

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

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.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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,

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.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

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

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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.

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—

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

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.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

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.

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

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

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?

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for 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.

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

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.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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.

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.

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

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

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

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,

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.

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—

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

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

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,”

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 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,

“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

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.”

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.

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