But Jesus served obediently His righteous Father God, and so He rightly offered Himself up as the Pure and Perfect Lamb of God, as the unblemished sacrifice Who died for the sins of ALL humanity upon the holy altar of His cross! Abraham could not really bear to see his own son Isaac of...
For the love of Christ constrains us (to constrain means to invite again and again – it doesn’t just happen once); because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; And that he died for all, that they who live should not from now on live unto themselves, but...
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on ...
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea. Bible Theasaurus Encouraging(22 instances) Faith(788 instances) ...
3For what I receivedI passed on to youas of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sinsaccording to the Scriptures,4that he was buried,that he was raisedon the third dayaccording to the Scriptures,5and that he appeared to Cephas,[b]and then to the Twelve.6After that, he appe...
They tell us that the body of Jesus was not permitted to hang on the cross overnight (Deuteronomy 21:23) and that he was buried the same day he died in accordance with Jewish law. 1 of 2 What do eggs have to do with Easter?How did a Christian holiday get scrambled up with colored...
For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.1 John 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the ...
What does the Bible say about the deity of Christ? For centuries, as affirmed at the Council of Nicea, Christians have used a wonderful list of verses to demonstrate from God's Word the deity of Jesus Christ. Here is another very different approach to show the same truth. (This is ...
Well, for three, the mystery of Christ which Paul preached was not revealed to man until after Jesus died, was raised, and ascended. The mystery of Christ was prepared by God before the world began, for our glory, but was not revealed to us until the gospel of Paul (and others whose...
“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit” (1 Peter 3:18) A fresh start: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation...