"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

"just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

"For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

And He took bread, gave thanks and broke [it,] and gave [it] to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

"Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

"No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father."

who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself [His] own special people, zealous for good works.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second.

By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all.]

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

" For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

"Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

"I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

" If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before [it hated] you.

"If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

"I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

"I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what [is] that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places.]

For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels.

and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies [under the sway of] the wicked one.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law [is] within my heart."

Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done."

saying, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done."

"I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

"For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

"I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

"But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did] by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit [is,] because He makes intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ,

In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin You had no pleasure.

Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and [offerings] for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure [in them"] (which are offered according to the law),

By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all.]

"In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now to our God and Father [be] glory forever and ever. Amen.

Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,