Sir, please let me stay and be your slave in the boy’s place, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
“I agree,” he said. “We’ll do what you’ve said. The man who has the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you can go free.”
“I guaranteed my father that the boy would come back. I said, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, then you can blame me the rest of my life, Father.’
How could I go back to my father if the boy isn’t with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s misery!”
When David saw the Messenger who had been killing the people, he said to the Lord, “I’ve sinned. I’ve done wrong. What have these sheep done? Please let your punishment be against me and against my father’s family.”
But will you forgive their sin? If not, please wipe me out of the book you have written.”
I wish I could be condemned and cut off from Christ for the sake of others who, like me, are Jewish by birth.
In this way Jesus has become the guarantee of a better promise.
We understand what love is when we realize that Christ gave his life for us. That means we must give our lives for other believers.