Numbers 21:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Moses obeyed the LORD. And all of those who looked at the bronze snake lived, even though they had been bitten by the poisonous snakes.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:4

He destroyed the local shrines, then tore down the images of foreign gods and cut down the sacred pole for worshipping the goddess Asherah. He also smashed the bronze snake Moses had made. The people had named it Nehushtan and had been offering sacrifices to it.

Isaiah 45:22

“I invite the whole world to turn to me and be saved. I alone am God! No others are real.

Zechariah 12:10

I, the LORD, will make the descendants of David and the people of Jerusalem feel deep sorrow and pray when they see the one they pierced with a spear. They will mourn and weep for him, as parents weep over the death of their only child or their firstborn.

John 1:29

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

John 12:32

If I am lifted up above the earth, I will make everyone want to come to me.”

John 6:40

My Father wants everyone who sees the Son to have faith in him and to have eternal life. Then I will raise them to life on the last day.

Romans 1:17

The good news tells how God accepts everyone who has faith, but only those who have faith. It is just as the Scriptures say, “The people God accepts because of their faith will live.”

Romans 8:3

The Law of Moses cannot do this, because our selfish desires make the Law weak. But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ's body to condemn sin.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so that Christ could make us acceptable to God.

Hebrews 12:2

We must keep our eyes on Jesus, who leads us and makes our faith complete. He endured the shame of being nailed to a cross, because he knew that later on he would be glad he did. Now he is seated at the right side of God's throne!

1 John 3:8

Anyone who keeps on sinning belongs to the devil. He has sinned from the beginning, but the Son of God came to destroy all that he has done.