Galatians 1:4

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Jesus gave himself for our sins to free us from this evil world we live in. This is what God our Father wanted.

Cross References

Matthew 20:28

Do as I did: The Son of Man did not come for people to serve him. He came to serve others and to give his life to save many people.”

Romans 4:25

Jesus was handed over to die for our sins, and he was raised from death to make us right with God.

Galatians 2:20

So I am not the one living now—it is Christ living in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God. He is the one who loved me and gave himself to save me.

1 Peter 2:24

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you were healed.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure—people who belong only to him and who always want to do good.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The ruler of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News—the message about the divine greatness of Christ. Christ is the one who is exactly like God.

1 Timothy 2:6

gave himself to pay for everyone to be free. This is the message that was given to us at just the right time.

Ephesians 2:2

Yes, in the past your lives were full of those sins. You lived the way the world lives, following the ruler of the evil powers that are above the earth. That same spirit is now working in those who refuse to obey God.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

This will strengthen your desire to do what is right, and you will be holy and without fault before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy people.

Romans 12:2

Don’t change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to understand and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.

Philippians 4:20

Glory to our God and Father forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 5:2

Live a life of love. Love others just as Christ loved us. He gave himself for us—a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the faithful witness. He is first among all who will be raised from death. He is the ruler of the kings of the earth. Jesus is the one who loves us and has made us free from our sins with his blood sacrifice.

Revelation 5:9

And they all sang a new song to the Lamb: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were killed, and with your blood sacrifice you bought people for God from every tribe, language, race of people, and nation.

1 John 3:16

This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for each other as brothers and sisters.

1 John 2:2

Jesus is the way our sins are taken away. And he is the way all people can have their sins taken away too.

1 Peter 3:18

Christ himself suffered when he died for you, and with that one death he paid for your sins. He was not guilty, but he died for people who are guilty. He did this to bring all of you to God. In his physical form he was killed, but he was made alive by the Spirit.

James 4:4

You people are not faithful to God! You should know that loving what the world has is the same as hating God. So anyone who wants to be friends with this evil world becomes God’s enemy.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

We pray that the Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father will comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say. God loved us and gave us through his grace a wonderful hope and comfort that has no end.

John 12:31

Now is the time for the world to be judged. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

Matthew 26:28

This wine is my blood, which will be poured out to forgive the sins of many and begin the new agreement from God to his people.

Isaiah 65:17

“I am creating a new heaven and a new earth. The troubles of the past will be forgotten. No one will remember them.

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood sacrifice of Christ can do much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make us completely clean from the evil we have done. It will give us clear consciences so that we can worship the living God.

Hebrews 2:5

God did not choose angels to be the rulers over the new world that was coming. That future world is the world we have been talking about.

1 Thessalonians 3:11

We pray that our God and Father and our Lord Jesus will prepare the way for us to come to you.

Ephesians 6:12

Our fight is not against people on earth. We are fighting against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness. We are fighting against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we were chosen to be God’s people. God had already planned for us to be his people, because that is what he wanted. And he is the one who makes everything agree with what he decides and wants.

Galatians 6:14

I hope I will never boast about things like that. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is my only reason for boasting. Through Jesus’ death on the cross the world is dead to me, and I am dead to the world.

Romans 8:32

He even let his own Son suffer for us. God gave his Son for all of us. So now with Jesus, God will surely give us all things.

Romans 8:3

The law was without power because it was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do: He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that everyone else uses for sin. God sent him to be an offering to pay for sin. So God used a human life to destroy sin.

Romans 1:7

This letter is to all of you in Rome. God loves you, and he has chosen you to be his holy people. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd, and the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

John 6:38

I came down from heaven to do what God wants, not what I want.

John 5:30

“I can do nothing alone. I judge only the way I am told. And my judgment is right, because I am not trying to please myself. I want only to please the one who sent me.

Luke 22:42

“Father, if you are willing, please don’t make me drink from this cup. But do what you want, not what I want.”

Mark 10:45

Follow my example: Even the Son of Man did not come for people to serve him. He came to serve others and to give his life to save many people.”

Matthew 26:42

Then Jesus went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if I must do this and it is not possible for me to escape it, then I pray that what you want will be done.”

Matthew 6:9

So this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, we pray that your name will always be kept holy.

Psalm 40:8

My God, I am happy to do whatever you want. I never stop thinking about your teachings.”

Revelation 7:9

Then I looked, and there was a large crowd of people. There were so many people that no one could count them all. They were from every nation, tribe, race of people, and language of the earth. They were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They all wore white robes and had palm branches in their hands.

Romans 8:27

God already knows our deepest thoughts. And he understands what the Spirit is saying, because the Spirit speaks for his people in the way that agrees with what God wants.

Luke 22:19

Then he took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke off some pieces, gave them to the apostles and said, “This bread is my body that I am giving for you. Eat this to remember me.”

Matthew 13:22

“And what about the seed that fell among the thorny weeds? That is like the people who hear the teaching but let worries about this life and love for money stop it from growing. So it does not produce a crop in their lives.

1 Corinthians 15:3

I gave you the message that I received. I told you the most important truths: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say;

Ephesians 5:16

I mean that you should use every opportunity you have for doing good, because these are evil times.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

Every time we pray to God our Father, we thank him for all that you have done because of your faith. And we thank him for the work you have done because of your love. And we thank him that you continue to be strong because of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.