so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."

"this is my blood, which seals God's covenant, my blood poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served; he came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."

Then he took a piece of bread, gave thanks to God, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

"I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.

"The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again.

No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do."

Because of our sins he was given over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with God.

Your life must be controlled by love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice that pleases God.

who gave himself to redeem the whole human race. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved,

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.

Then he said, "Here I am, O God, to do your will." So God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place.

Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all.

Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed.

For Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death physically, but made alive spiritually,

And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.

This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins

As for me, however, I will boast only about the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; for by means of his cross the world is dead to me, and I am dead to the world.

The LORD says, "I am making a new earth and new heavens. The events of the past will be completely forgotten.

Now is the time for this world to be judged; now the ruler of this world will be overthrown.

I cannot talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

"If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.

If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.

I gave them your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but I do ask you to keep them safe from the Evil One.

Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God---what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.

They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

At that time you followed the world's evil way; you obeyed the ruler of the spiritual powers in space, the spirit who now controls the people who disobey God.

For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age.

God has not placed the angels as rulers over the new world to come---the world of which we speak.

they knew from experience that God's word is good, and they had felt the powers of the coming age.

Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy.

Do not love the world or anything that belongs to the world. If you love the world, you do not love the Father.

The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but those who do the will of God live forever.

because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith.

Who can defeat the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

We know that we belong to God even though the whole world is under the rule of the Evil One.

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God---in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals. For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.

After this I looked, and there was an enormous crowd---no one could count all the people! They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood in front of the throne and of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

How I love to do your will, my God! I keep your teaching in my heart."

Once more Jesus went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cup of suffering cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will be done."

"Father," he said, "if you will, take this cup of suffering away from me. Not my will, however, but your will be done."

"I can do nothing on my own authority; I judge only as God tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants.

because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

I cannot talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

but the world must know that I love the Father; that is why I do everything as he commands me. "Come, let us go from this place.

What the Law could not do, because human nature was weak, God did. He condemned sin in human nature by sending his own Son, who came with a nature like our sinful nature, to do away with sin.

And God, who sees into our hearts, knows what the thought of the Spirit is; because the Spirit pleads with God on behalf of his people and in accordance with his will.

Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son---will he not also freely give us all things?

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.

For the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins.

You are not pleased with animals burned whole on the altar or with sacrifices to take away sins.

First he said, "You neither want nor are you pleased with sacrifices and offerings or with animals burned on the altar and the sacrifices to take away sins." He said this even though all these sacrifices are offered according to the Law.

Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all.

This, then, is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven: May your holy name be honored;

And so I write to all of you in Rome whom God loves and has called to be his own people: May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

To our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

May our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus prepare the way for us to come to you!

In this way he will strengthen you, and you will be perfect and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all who belong to him.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope,