Romans 7:4

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

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

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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.

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

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.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

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

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

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

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

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.

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.

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

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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.”

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.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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

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.

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

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

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

Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

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.”

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

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

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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,”

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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

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

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.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

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.”

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.”

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.