GENESIS 22 : 8
Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on us both.
Behold, Yahweh, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely.
For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."
"Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!"
Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Gospel."
He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
The farmer sows the word.
These are those which were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."
He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
They went out and preached that people should repent.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's will save it.
Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the Gospel's sake,
For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.
The Gospel must first be preached to all the nations.
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
Most assuredly I tell you, wherever this Gospel may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."
He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation.
They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
To give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!"
Be it known to you therefore, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe.
But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus,{TR adds "Christ"} just as they are."
Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation!"
They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.{TR adds "Christ"}
The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."
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."
through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
for your partnership{The word translated "partnership" (koinonia) also means "fellowship" and "sharing."} in furtherance of the Gospel from the first day until now;
It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
Now I desire to have you know, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Gospel;
The former insincerly preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Yes, I beg you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
and that our Gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Gospel of God in much conflict.
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
according to the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-- which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.
Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.