Matthew 20:28

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Matthew 20:28

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

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and if God is gracious to him and says, 'Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,'

Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price

He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds, crushed because of our sins; he endured punishment that made us well; because of his wounds we have been healed.

"Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father -- and I lay down my life for the sheep.

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree")

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God's purpose at his appointed time.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

and from Jesus Christ -- the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints).

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And take the Levites for me -- I am the Lord -- instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites."

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

So Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called 'benefactors.'

You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,