For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”
He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
“You are those who have stayed with me in my trials,
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
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