Bible Cross References
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Isaiah 45:13
I myself have stirred Cyrus to action to fulfill my purpose and put things right. I will straighten out every road that he travels. He will rebuild my city, Jerusalem, and set my captive people free. No one has hired him or bribed him to do this." The LORD Almighty has spoken.
Isaiah 50:1
The LORD says, "Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.
Psalm 44:12
You sold your own people for a small price as though they had little value.
Jeremiah 15:13
The LORD said to me, "I will send enemies to carry away the wealth and treasures of my people, in order to punish them for the sins they have committed throughout the land.
1 Peter 1:18
For you know what was paid to set you free from the worthless manner of life handed down by your ancestors. It was not something that can be destroyed, such as silver or gold;
Romans 7:14-25
14
We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a mortal, sold as a slave to sin.
15
I do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate.
16
Since what I do is what I don't want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right.
17
So I am not really the one who does this thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me.
18
I know that good does not live in me---that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
19
I don't do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.
20
If I do what I don't want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it; instead, it is the sin that lives in me.
21
So I find that this law is at work: when I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have.
22
My inner being delights in the law of God.
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But I see a different law at work in my body---a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.
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What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death?
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Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.