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He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Luke Chapter 24: Verses 46 - 47
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
John Chapter 6: Verse 51
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John Chapter 10: Verse 11
You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish."
He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,
and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.
John Chapter 11: Verses 50 - 52
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."
Acts Chapter 9: Verse 16
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Romans Chapter 4: Verse 25
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans Chapter 5: Verses 6 - 8
Now if we are children, then we are heirs,heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.Future Glory
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Romans Chapter 8: Verses 17 - 23
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Romans Chapter 8: Verse 26
If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.
Romans Chapter 14: Verse 15
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel,not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.Christ the Wisdom and Power of God
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verses 17 - 18
but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verses 23 - 24
We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
1 Corinthians Chapter 4: Verse 12
So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
1 Corinthians Chapter 8: Verse 11
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians Chapter 15: Verse 3
And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
2 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verse 7
For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.
So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak,
because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence.
All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians Chapter 4: Verses 11 - 18
For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
2 Corinthians Chapter 5: Verses 14 - 15
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Galatians Chapter 1: Verse 4
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
Galatians Chapter 2: Verses 20 - 21
and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians Chapter 5: Verse 2
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ephesians Chapter 5: Verse 25
For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him,
Philippians Chapter 1: Verse 29
Indeed he was ill, and almost died. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety.
Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,
because he almost died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for the help you could not give me.
Philippians Chapter 2: Verses 27 - 30
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
Philippians Chapter 3: Verse 10
Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
Colossians Chapter 1: Verse 24
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 5: Verses 9 - 10
Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.
All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
2 Thessalonians Chapter 1: Verses 4 - 5
if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us;
2 Timothy Chapter 2: Verse 12
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Hebrews Chapter 2: Verses 9 - 10
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death,that is, the devil,
Hebrews Chapter 2: Verse 14
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Hebrews Chapter 2: Verse 18
Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered
and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
Hebrews Chapter 5: Verses 8 - 9
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance,now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it,
Hebrews Chapter 9: Verses 15 - 16
so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Hebrews Chapter 9: Verse 28
And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verse 10
And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verses 18 - 20
Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
James Chapter 5: Verse 10
To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
1 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 21
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 24
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 Chapter 3: Verse 18
Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
1 Peter Chapter 4: Verse 1
But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
1 Peter Chapter 4: Verses 13 - 14
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1 Peter Chapter 5: Verse 10
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John Chapter 3: Verse 16
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