jesus sacrifice
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16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
2And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not only for our sins, but also for those of the whole world.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
12entered once into the Holy of Holies, having obtained eternal redemption, neither by the blood of goats, nor of calves, but by his own blood.
5For there is one God, and one mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
1Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2And he will rise up like a tender plant in his sight, and like a root from the thirsty ground. There is no beautiful or stately appearance in him. For we looked upon him, and there was no aspect, such that we would desire him. 3He is despised and the least among men, a man of sorrows who knows infirmity. And his countenance was hidden and despised. Because of this, we did not esteem him. 4Truly, he has taken away our weaknesses, and he himself has carried our sorrows. And we thought of him as if he were a leper, or as if he had been struck by God and humiliated. 5But he himself was wounded because of our iniquities. He was bruised because of our wickedness. The discipline of our peace was upon him. And by his wounds, we are healed. 6We have all gone astray like sheep; each one has turned aside to his own way. And the Lord has placed all our iniquity upon him.
6Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
6who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized. 7Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man. 8He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross.
2And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.