who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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