I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body. American Standard Version (1901) for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body. Common English Bible You have been bought and paid for, so honor God with your body. Catholic Public Domain Version For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body. |
I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.
I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. ,
My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all courage, Christ will be highly honoured in my body, whether by life or by death.
he entered the most holy place once for all time, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.
For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
But you are a chosen race, ,, a royal priesthood, , a holy nation, , a people for his possession, , so that you may proclaim the praises ,, of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
There were indeed false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.
And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and you purchased people for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation.