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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.

⁴⁵So, too, the Son of man has not come so that they would minister to him, but so that he would minister and would give his life as a redemption for many.”

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.

²⁶Otherwise, he would need to have suffered repeatedly since the beginning of the world. But now, one time, at the consummation of the ages, he has appeared in order to destroy sin though his own sacrifice.

⁸He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross.

¹⁸For Christ also died once for our sins, the Just One on behalf of the unjust, so that he might offer us to God, having died, certainly, in the flesh, but having been enlivened by the Spirit.

²¹For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in him.

⁸But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

¹³No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.

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.

¹⁶We know the love of God in this way: because he laid down his life for us. And so, we must lay down our lives for our brothers.

¹²But this man, offering one sacrifice for sins, sits at the right hand of God forever,

¹⁰For by this will, we have been sanctified, through the one time oblation of the body of Jesus Christ.

²⁰I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.

²⁴He himself bore our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sin, would live for justice. By his wounds, you have been healed.

²⁸even as the Son of man has not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a redemption for many.”

¹⁰In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.

²⁵whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,

²⁸so also Christ was offered, one time, in order to empty the sins of so many. He shall appear a second time without sin, for those who await him, unto salvation.

⁴who gave himself on behalf of our sins, so that he might deliver us from this present wicked age, according to the will of God our Father.