I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
1 Corinthians 6:20 - New Revised Standard Version For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in 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 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.
Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for 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—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—
It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in any way, but that by my speaking with all boldness, Christ will be exalted now as always in my body, whether by life or by death.
he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.
You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;