Luke 23:41

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Luke 23:41

And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

We indeed

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We indeed

I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

‘If they confess their wickedness and the wickedness of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they have committed against Me—and also in their acting with hostility toward Me—

Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I implore you, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and give praise to Him [in recognition of His righteous judgments]; and tell me now what you have done. Do not hide it from me.”

But when he was in distress, he sought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

And after everything that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God have punished us less than our wrongdoings deserve, and have given us survivors like these,

While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day and for another fourth [of it] they confessed [their sins] and worshiped the Lord their God.

I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed and said, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and extends lovingkindness toward those who love Him and keep His commandments,

So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you.

If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude ourselves and the truth is not in us. [His word does not live in our hearts.]

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so that you may be accepted—it must be a male without blemish from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the [false] prophets, “This man is not deserving of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

At the same time two robbers were crucified with Jesus, one on the right and one on the left.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would dive overboard and swim [to land] and escape;