Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
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. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”
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