For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore it was necessary for this [priest] also to have something to offer.

Therefore, as He was coming into the world, He said: You did not want sacrifice and offering, but You prepared a body for Me.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.

Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive, have a son, and name him Immanuel.

Then a shoot will grow from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

He grew up before Him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or splendor that we should look at Him, no appearance that we should desire Him.

Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains; but we in turn regarded Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the LORD has punished Him for the iniquity of us all.

He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered His fate? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of My people's rebellion.

Yet the LORD was pleased to crush Him, and He made Him sick. When You make Him a restitution offering, He will see [His] seed, He will prolong His days, and the will of the LORD will succeed by His hand.

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin's domain, and as a sin offering,

But when the completion of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form,

For this reason God also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name,

For You meet him with rich blessings; You place a crown of pure gold on his head.

His glory is great through Your victory; You confer majesty and splendor on him.

Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear.

His eyes were like a fiery flame, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knows except Himself.

"For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!

So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.

He did not even spare His own Son, but offered Him up for us all; how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Working together with Him, we also appeal to you: "Don't receive God's grace in vain."

God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don't labor or spin thread.

Then He said to them, "I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power."

I tell you the truth: there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God."

Then the Jews said, "Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, 'If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death-- ever!'

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

As for Me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all [people] to Myself."

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

who gave Himself-- a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time.

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

And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals; because You were slaughtered, and You redeemed [people] for God by Your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation.