And
I will put enmity
between thee
and the woman,
and between thy
seed
and her seed;
it shall bruise
thy head,
and
thou shalt bruise
his heel.
My God,
my God,
why hast
thou forsaken me?
why art
thou
so far from helping me,
and from the words
of my roaring?
They gaped
upon me
with their mouths,
as a ravening
and a roaring lion.
For dogs
have compassed me:
the assembly of the wicked
have inclosed me:
they pierced
my hands
and my feet.
They part
my garments
among them,
and cast lots
upon my vesture.
He keepeth all
his bones:
not one
of them is broken.
They gave me
also gall
for my meat;
and in my thirst
they gave me vinegar
to drink.
For they
persecute him whom thou
hast smitten;
and they
talk
to the grief
of those whom
thou hast wounded.
I became also a reproach
unto them:
when they
looked
upon me they
shaked
their heads.
I gave my back
to the smiters,
and my cheeks
to them
that plucked
off the hair:
I hid not
my face
from shame and spitting.
As many
were astonied
at thee;
his visage
was so
marred more than
any man,
and his form
more than
the sons
of men:
Surely
he hath borne
our griefs,
and carried
our sorrows:
yet
we did esteem him
stricken,
smitten of God,
and afflicted.
But
he was wounded
for our transgressions,
he was bruised
for our iniquities:
the chastisement
of our peace
was upon him;
and
with his stripes
we are healed.
All we like sheep
have gone astray;
we have turned every one
to his own way;
and the LORD
hath laid
on him the iniquity
of us all.
He was oppressed,
and
he was afflicted,
yet
he opened not
his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb
to the slaughter,
and as a sheep
before her shearers
is dumb,
so he
openeth not
his mouth.
He was taken
from prison
and from judgment:
and
who shall declare
his generation?
for he
was cut off
out of the land
of the living:
for the transgression
of my people
was he stricken.
And he
made
his grave
with the wicked,
and
with the rich in his death;
because
he had done
no violence,
neither was any deceit
in his mouth.
Yet it
pleased
the LORD
to bruise him;
he hath put him
to grief:
when
thou shalt make
his soul an offering
for sin,
he shall see
his seed,
he shall prolong
his days,
and
the pleasure
of the LORD
shall prosper
in his hand.
He shall see of the travail
of his soul,
and shall be satisfied:
by his knowledge
shall my righteous servant
justify many;
for he
shall bear
their iniquities.
Therefore will
I divide him
a portion
with the great,
and
he shall divide
the spoil
with the strong;
because
he hath poured
out his soul
unto death:
and
he was numbered
with the transgressors;
and
he bare
the sin
of many,
and made intercession
for the transgressors.
Seventy weeks
are determined
upon thy people
and upon thy holy city,
to finish
the transgression,
and
to make an end
of sins,
and
to make reconciliation
for iniquity,
and to bring in
everlasting righteousness,
and
to seal
up the vision
and prophecy,
and to anoint
the most Holy.
And
after threescore
and two weeks
shall
Messiah be cut off,
but not for himself:
and the people
of the prince
that shall come
shall destroy
the city
and the sanctuary;
and the end
thereof shall be
with a flood,
and unto the end
of the war desolations
are determined.
As for thee also,
by the blood
of thy covenant
I have sent
forth thy prisoners
out of the pit
wherein is no water.
And it
shall come
to pass
in that day,
that I
will seek
to destroy all
the nations that
come
against Jerusalem.
And
I will pour upon the house
of David,
and
upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem,
the spirit
of grace
and of supplications:
and
they shall look
upon me whom
they have pierced,
and
they
shall mourn for him,
as one
mourneth for his only son,
and shall be
in bitterness
for him,
as one
that is
in bitterness
for his firstborn.
In that day
there shall be
a fountain
opened
to the house
of David
and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem
for sin and
for uncleanness.
And
one
shall say unto him,
What are these wounds
in thine hands?
Then
he shall answer,
Those with which
I was wounded in the house
of my friends.
Awake,
O sword,
against my shepherd,
and against the man
that is
my fellow,
saith the LORD
of hosts:
smite the shepherd,
and the sheep
shall be scattered:
and
I will turn mine hand
upon the little ones.
For as Jonas
was three days
and three nights
in the whale's belly;
so shall
the Son of man
be three days
and three nights
in the heart
of the earth.
A wicked
and adulterous generation
seeketh after a sign;
and there shall
no sign
be given unto it,
but the sign
of the prophet Jonas.
And he
left them,
and departed.
From that time
forth began Jesus
to shew
unto his disciples,
how that
he must go
unto Jerusalem,
and suffer many things
of the elders
and chief priests
and scribes,
and be killed,
and be raised again
the third day.
But
I say unto you,
That Elias
is come already,
and
they knew him not,
but have done
unto him whatsoever
they listed.
Likewise
shall also
the Son
of man
suffer of them.
Then the disciples
understood
that he
spake unto them of John
the Baptist.
And
while they abode
in Galilee,
Jesus
said unto them,
The Son of man
shall be betrayed
into the hands
of men:
And
they shall kill him,
and the third day
he shall be raised again.
And
they were exceeding sorry.
And Jesus
going
up to Jerusalem
took the twelve disciples
apart in the way,
and
said unto them,
Behold,
we go
up to Jerusalem;
and the Son
of man
shall be betrayed
unto the chief priests
and unto the scribes,
and
they shall condemn him
to death,
And shall deliver him
to the Gentiles
to mock,
and to scourge,
and
to crucify him:
and the third day
he shall rise again.
Even as the Son
of man
came not
to be ministered unto,
but to minister,
and
to give his life
a ransom
for many.
Hear
another parable:
There was a certain householder,
which planted a vineyard,
and hedged it round about,
and digged
a winepress in it,
and built
a tower,
and let it out
to husbandmen,
and went into a far country:
And
when
the time
of the fruit drew near,
he sent his servants
to the husbandmen,
that they
might receive
the fruits of it.
And the husbandmen
took his servants,
and beat one,
and killed
another,
and stoned
another.
Again,
he sent other servants
more than the first:
and
they did unto them likewise.
But last
of all
he sent
unto them his son,
saying,
They will reverence
my son.
But
when the husbandmen
saw the son,
they said
among themselves,
This is the heir;
come,
let us
kill him,
and let us
seize
on his inheritance.
And
they caught him,
and cast him
out of the vineyard,
and slew him.
Ye know
that after two days
is the feast
of the passover,
and the Son
of man
is betrayed
to be crucified.
And he said,
Go into the city
to such a man,
and say unto him,
The Master saith,
My time
is at hand;
I will keep
the passover
at thy
house
with my disciples.
The Son of man
goeth as it
is written of him:
but woe
unto that man by
whom the Son
of man
is betrayed!
it had been good
for that man
if he
had not been born.
For this
is my blood
of the new testament,
which is
shed for many
for the remission
of sins.
And
he went a little farther,
and fell
on his face,
and prayed,
saying,
O my Father,
if it
be possible,
let this cup pass
from me:
nevertheless
not as I will,
but as thou wilt.
He went away again
the second time,
and prayed,
saying,
O my Father,
if this cup
may not pass
away from me,
except I
drink it,
thy will be done.
Thinkest
thou
that I
cannot now pray
to my Father,
and
he shall
presently give me more than
twelve legions
of angels?
But
how then
shall
the scriptures
be fulfilled,
that thus it
must be?
And
he began
to teach them,
that the Son
of man
must suffer
many things,
and be rejected
of the elders,
and
of the chief priests,
and scribes,
and be killed,
and after three days
rise again.
For he
taught his disciples,
and
said unto them,
The Son of man
is delivered
into the hands
of men,
and
they shall kill him;
and after that
he is killed,
he shall rise
the third day.
Saying,
Behold,
we go
up to Jerusalem;
and the Son
of man
shall be delivered
unto the chief priests,
and
unto the scribes;
and
they shall condemn him
to death,
and shall deliver him
to the Gentiles:
And
they shall mock him,
and shall scourge him,
and
shall spit upon him,
and shall kill him:
and the third day
he shall rise again.
And Simeon
blessed them,
and said
unto Mary his mother,
Behold,
this child
is set
for the fall
and rising again
of many
in Israel;
and for a sign
which shall be spoken against;
Saying,
The Son of man
must suffer
many things,
and be rejected
of the elders
and chief priests
and scribes,
and be slain,
and be raised
the third day.
Let these sayings
sink down
into your ears:
for the Son
of man
shall be delivered
into the hands
of men.
And it
came
to pass,
when the time
was come
that he
should be received up,
he stedfastly set
his face
to go
to Jerusalem,
But
I have
a baptism
to be baptized with;
and how am
I straitened till
it be accomplished!
But first must
he suffer
many things,
and be rejected
of this generation.
And
he said unto them,
With
desire
I have desired
to eat this passover
with you
before I suffer:
And
he took bread,
and gave thanks,
and brake it,
and
gave unto them,
saying,
This is my body
which is given
for you:
this do
in remembrance of me.
Likewise
also the cup
after supper,
saying,
This cup
is the new testament
in my blood,
which is
shed for you.
For I
say unto you,
that this
that is written
must yet be accomplished in me,
And
he was reckoned
among the transgressors:
for the things
concerning
me have an end.
Saying,
Father,
if thou
be willing,
remove this cup
from me:
nevertheless not my will,
but thine,
be done.
Ought not Christ
to have suffered these things,
and
to enter
into his glory?
The next day John
seeth
Jesus
coming unto him,
and saith,
Behold the Lamb
of God,
which taketh away
the sin
of the world.
And
as Moses
lifted
up the serpent
in the wilderness,
even so
must
the Son
of man
be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth
in him should not perish,
but have
eternal life.
For God so
loved the world,
that he
gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish,
but have
everlasting life.
For God
sent not his Son
into the world
to condemn the world;
but
that the world
through him might be saved.
I am
the living bread which
came down
from heaven:
if any man
eat of this bread,
he shall live
for ever:
and the bread that
I will give
is my flesh,
which I
will give
for the life
of the world.
I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd
giveth his life
for the sheep.
As the Father
knoweth me,
even so
know
I the Father:
and
I lay down
my life
for the sheep.
Therefore doth
my Father
love me,
because
I lay down
my life,
that I
might take it again.
No man
taketh it
from me,
but
I lay it down
of myself.
I have
power
to lay it down,
and
I have
power
to take it again.
This commandment
have
I received
of my Father.
And one
of them,
named Caiaphas,
being the high priest
that same year,
said unto them,
Ye know nothing
at all,
Nor consider
that it
is expedient
for us,
that one man
should die
for the people,
and
that the whole nation
perish not.
And this
spake
he
not of himself:
but being high priest
that year,
he prophesied
that Jesus
should die
for that nation;
And not for that nation only,
but that also
he should gather together
in one
the children
of God
that were scattered abroad.
Then said Jesus,
Let her alone:
against the day
of my burying
hath
she kept this.
Verily,
verily,
I say unto you,
Except a corn
of wheat
fall
into the ground
and die,
it abideth alone:
but if it die,
it bringeth forth much fruit.
Now is the judgment
of this world:
now shall
the prince
of this world
be cast out.
And I,
if I
be lifted up
from the earth,
will draw all men
unto me.
This
he said,
signifying
what death
he should die.
The people
answered him,
We have heard
out of the law
that Christ abideth
for ever:
and how sayest thou,
The Son
of man
must be lifted up?
who is this Son
of man?
I speak not
of you all:
I know whom
I have chosen:
but
that the scripture
may be fulfilled,
He that
eateth bread
with me hath lifted
up his heel
against me.
Now I
tell you
before it come,
that,
when it
is come
to pass,
ye may believe that
I am he.
When Jesus
had thus said,
he was troubled
in spirit,
and testified,
and said,
Verily,
verily,
I say unto you,
that one of you
shall betray me.
Yet a little while,
and the world
seeth me no more;
but ye
see me:
because
I live,
ye shall live also.
Greater love
hath no man
than this,
that a man
lay down his life
for his friends.
Verily,
verily,
I say unto you,
That ye
shall weep
and lament,
but the world
shall rejoice:
and
ye shall be sorrowful,
but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy.
They answered him,
Jesus
of Nazareth.
Jesus
saith unto them,
I am he.
And Judas also,
which betrayed him,
stood with them.
Jesus answered,
I have told you
that
I am he:
if therefore
ye seek me,
let these
go their way:
Then said Jesus
unto Peter,
Put up thy sword
into the sheath:
the cup which my Father
hath given me,
shall
I not drink it?
Jesus answered,
Thou
couldest have
no power at
all against me,
except
it were given thee
from above:
therefore he
that delivered me
unto thee
hath the greater sin.
The God
of our fathers
raised up Jesus,
whom
ye slew
and hanged
on a tree.
Him hath God exalted
with his right hand to be
a Prince
and a Saviour,
for to give repentance
to Israel,
and forgiveness
of sins.
Take heed therefore
unto yourselves,
and
to all the flock,
over the which the Holy Ghost
hath made
you overseers,
to feed the church
of God,
which he
hath purchased
with his own blood.
Having therefore obtained
help of God,
I continue
unto this day,
witnessing both
to small
and great,
saying none other things
than those
which the prophets
and Moses
did say
should come:
That Christ
should suffer,
and
that he
should be
the first
that should rise
from the dead,
and should shew
light
unto the people,
and
to the Gentiles.
Being justified freely
by his grace
through the redemption
that is
in Christ Jesus:
Whom God
hath
set forth
to be a propitiation
through faith
in his blood,
to declare
his righteousness
for the remission
of sins
that are past,
through the forbearance
of God;
Who was delivered
for our offences,
and was raised again
for our justification.
For when
we were yet
without strength,
in due time
Christ
died
for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a
righteous man
will
one die:
yet peradventure for a
good man some
would even dare
to die.
But God
commendeth
his love
toward us,
in that,
while we
were yet sinners,
Christ
died for us.
Much more then,
being now justified
by his blood,
we shall be saved
from wrath
through him.
For if,
when
we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God
by the death
of his Son,
much more,
being reconciled,
we shall be saved
by his life.
And not only so,
but
we also joy
in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom
we have now received
the atonement.
Know ye not,
that so many of us
as were baptized
into Jesus Christ
were baptized
into his death?
Therefore we
are buried
with him
by baptism
into death:
that like
as Christ
was raised up
from the dead
by the glory
of the Father,
even so
we also should walk in newness
of life.
For if
we have been planted together
in the likeness
of his death,
we shall be also
in the likeness
of his resurrection:
Knowing that Christ
being raised
from the dead dieth no more;
death
hath
no more dominion
over him.
For in that
he died,
he died
unto sin once:
but in that
he liveth,
he liveth unto God.
For what
the law
could not do,
in that
it was weak
through the flesh,
God sending
his own Son
in the likeness
of sinful flesh,
and for sin,
condemned
sin
in the flesh:
He that
spared not
his own Son,
but delivered
him up
for us all,
how shall
he not with him
also freely give us all things?
Who is
he that condemneth?
It is
Christ
that died,
yea rather,
that is risen again,
who is even
at the right hand
of God,
who also maketh intercession
for us.
Nor height,
nor depth,
nor any other creature,
shall be able
to separate us
from the love
of God,
which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
For to this end
Christ both died,
and rose,
and revived,
that he
might be Lord both
of the dead and living.
But
if thy brother
be grieved
with thy meat,
now walkest
thou
not charitably.
Destroy not him
with thy meat,
for whom Christ died.
For Christ
sent me not
to baptize,
but to preach
the gospel:
not with wisdom
of words,
lest the cross
of Christ
should be made
of none effect.
For the preaching
of the cross
is
to them
that perish foolishness;
but unto us which
are saved
it is the power
of God.
But we
preach Christ crucified,
unto the Jews
a stumblingblock,
and
unto the Greeks foolishness;
But
unto them which
are called,
both Jews
and Greeks,
Christ the power
of God,
and the wisdom
of God.
For I
determined not
to know any thing
among you,
save Jesus Christ,
and him crucified.
Purge out therefore
the old leaven,
that ye
may be
a new lump,
as ye
are unleavened.
For even
Christ our passover
is sacrificed for us:
For ye
are bought
with a price:
therefore glorify God
in your body,
and
in your spirit,
which are God's.
And through thy knowledge
shall
the weak brother perish,
for whom Christ died?
For I delivered
unto you
first of all
that which
I also received,
how that Christ
died
for our sins
according to the scriptures;
And that
he was buried,
and that
he rose again
the third day
according to the scriptures:
Always bearing about
in the body
the dying
of the Lord Jesus,
that the life
also of Jesus
might be made
manifest
in our body.
For we which live
are alway delivered unto death
for Jesus' sake,
that the life
also of Jesus
might be made
manifest
in our mortal flesh.
For the love
of Christ
constraineth us;
because
we thus judge,
that if one
died
for all,
then were all dead:
And
that he
died
for all,
that they which live
should not henceforth live
unto themselves,
but
unto him
which died for them,
and rose again.
To wit,
that God
was in Christ,
reconciling the world
unto himself,
not imputing
their trespasses
unto them;
and hath committed
unto us the word
of reconciliation.
For he
hath made him
to be
sin for us,
who knew
no sin;
that we
might be made
the righteousness
of God in him.
For ye
know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that,
though he
was rich,
yet for your sakes
he became poor,
that ye
through his poverty
might be rich.
Who gave himself
for our sins,
that he
might deliver us
from this present evil world,
according to the will
of God
and our Father:
I am crucified
with Christ:
neverthless
I live;
yet not I,
but Christ
liveth in me:
and the life
which I
now live
in the flesh
I live
by the faith
of the Son
of God,
who loved me,
and
gave himself for me.
Christ
hath redeemed us
from the curse
of the law,
being made a curse
for us:
for it
is written,
Cursed is every one
that hangeth on a tree:
But
when the fulness
of the time
was come,
God sent
forth his Son,
made of a woman,
made under the law,
To redeem them
that were under the law,
that we
might receive
the adoption
of sons.
To the praise
of the glory
of his grace,
wherein he
hath made us
accepted
in the beloved.
In whom
we have redemption
through his blood,
the forgiveness
of sins,
according to
the riches
of his grace;
But now in Christ Jesus
ye who
sometimes were far
off are made nigh
by the blood
of Christ.
For he
is our peace,
who hath made
both one,
and hath broken down
the middle wall
of partition
between us;
Having abolished
in his flesh the enmity,
even
the law
of commandments
contained
in ordinances;
for to make
in himself
of twain one new man,
so making peace;
And
that he
might reconcile both
unto God
in one body
by the cross,
having slain
the enmity thereby:
And walk in love,
as Christ
also hath loved us,
and hath given himself
for us an offering
and a
sacrifice
to God
for a sweetsmelling savour.
Husbands,
love your wives,
even as Christ
also loved
the church,
and gave himself
for it;
That he
might sanctify
and cleanse it
with the washing
of water
by the word,
That he
might present it
to himself
a glorious church,
not having spot,
or wrinkle,
or any such thing;
but
that it
should be holy
and
without blemish.
And being found
in fashion
as a man,
he humbled himself,
and became obedient
unto death,
even the death
of the cross.
In whom
we have redemption
through his blood,
even the forgiveness
of sins:
Who is the image
of the invisible God,
the firstborn
of every creature:
And
to wait
for his Son
from heaven,
whom
he raised
from the dead,
even Jesus,
which delivered us
from the wrath
to come.
For if
we believe
that Jesus
died
and rose again,
even so
them
also which sleep
in Jesus
will
God
bring with him.
For God
hath not appointed us
to wrath,
but
to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for us,
that,
whether we
wake or sleep,
we should live together with him.
Who gave himself a ransom
for all,
to be testified
in due time.
Who gave himself for us,
that he
might redeem us
from all iniquity,
and purify
unto himself
a peculiar people,
zealous
of good works.
Who being the brightness
of his glory,
and the express image
of his person,
and upholding all things
by the word
of his power,
when he
had by himself
purged
our sins,
sat down
on the right hand
of the Majesty
on high:
But we
see Jesus,
who was made
a little lower
than the angels
for the suffering
of death,
crowned with glory
and honour;
that he by the grace
of God
should taste death
for every man.
For it
became him,
for whom
are all things,
and by whom are all things,
in bringing many sons
unto glory,
to make the captain
of their salvation perfect
through sufferings.
Forasmuch
then as the children
are partakers
of flesh
and blood,
he also
himself likewise
took part
of the same;
that through death
he might destroy him
that
had the power
of death,
that is,
the devil;
And deliver them
who
through fear
of death
were all
their lifetime subject to bondage.
For in
that he himself
hath suffered
being tempted,
he is able
to succour them
that are tempted.
Who needeth
not daily,
as those high priests,
to offer
up sacrifice,
first for his own sins,
and
then
for the people's:
for this
he did once,
when he
offered
up himself.
Neither by the blood of goats
and calves,
but by his own
blood
he entered in
once into the holy place,
having obtained
eternal redemption
for us.
For if
the blood
of bulls
and of goats,
and the ashes
of an heifer
sprinkling
the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying
of the flesh:
How much more
shall the blood
of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself
without spot
to God,
purge your conscience
from dead works
to serve
the living God?
And
for this cause
he is the mediator
of the new testament,
that by means
of death,
for the redemption
of the transgressions
that were under the first testament,
they which
are called
might receive
the promise
of eternal inheritance.
For where
a testament is,
there must also
of necessity
be the death
of the testator.
For a testament
is of force
after men
are dead:
otherwise
it is of no strength
at all
while the testator liveth.
Nor yet
that he
should offer himself often,
as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every year
with blood of others;
For then
must
he often have suffered
since the foundation
of the world:
but now once in the end
of the world
hath
he appeared
to put
away
sin
by the sacrifice
of himself.
So Christ
was once offered
to bear the sins
of many;
and unto them that
look for him
shall
he appear
the second time
without sin
unto salvation.
By the which
will
we are sanctified
through the offering
of the body
of Jesus Christ
once for all.
But this man,
after he
had offered
one
sacrifice
for sins
for ever,
sat down
on the right hand
of God;
For by one
offering
he hath perfected
for ever
them
that are sanctified.
And their sins
and iniquities
will
I remember no more.
Now
where remission of these is,
there is
no more offering
for sin.
Having therefore,
brethren,
boldness
to enter
into the holiest
by the blood
of Jesus,
By a new
and living way,
which he
hath consecrated for us,
through the veil,
that is to say,
his flesh;
Looking unto Jesus
the author
and finisher
of our faith;
who for the joy
that was set
before him
endured the cross,
despising
the shame,
and is set down
at the right hand
of the throne
of God.
And
to Jesus
the mediator
of the new covenant,
and to the blood
of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things
that that
of Abel.
For the bodies
of those beasts,
whose blood
is brought
into the sanctuary
by the high priest
for sin,
are burned
without the camp.
Wherefore Jesus also,
that he
might sanctify
the people
with his own blood,
suffered
without the gate.
Elect according to
the foreknowledge
of God the Father,
through sanctification
of the Spirit,
unto obedience
and sprinkling
of the blood
of Jesus Christ:
Grace unto you,
and peace,
be multiplied.
Forasmuch as ye
know
that ye
were not redeemed
with corruptible things,
as silver
and gold,
from your vain conversation
received
by tradition
from your fathers;
But with the precious blood
of Christ,
as of a lamb
without blemish
and without spot:
Who verily was foreordained
before the foundation
of the world,
but was
manifest
in these last times
for you,
Who
by him do believe
in God,
that raised
him up
from the dead,
and gave him glory;
that your faith
and hope
might be
in God.
For even hereunto were
ye called:
because Christ
also suffered for us,
leaving us
an example,
that ye
should follow
his steps:
Who his own self bare
our sins
in his own body
on the tree,
that we,
being dead
to sins,
should live
unto righteousness:
by whose stripes
ye were healed.
For Christ
also hath once suffered
for sins,
the just for the unjust,
that he
might bring us
to God,
being put
to death
in the flesh,
but quickened
by the Spirit:
Forasmuch
then as Christ
hath suffered
for us
in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise
with the same mind:
for he
that hath suffered
in the flesh
hath ceased
from sin;
But
if we
walk
in the light,
as he
is in the light,
we have fellowship one
with another,
and the blood
of Jesus Christ
his Son
cleanseth us
from all sin.
And
he is the propitiation
for our sins:
and not for our's only,
but also for the sins
of the whole world.
Hereby perceive
we the love
of God,
because
he laid down
his life
for us:
and
we ought to lay down
our lives
for the brethren.
Herein is love,
not
that we
loved God,
but that
he loved us,
and sent
his Son
to be the propitiation
for our sins.
And
from Jesus Christ,
who is the faithful witness,
and the first begotten
of the dead,
and the prince
of the kings
of the earth.
Unto him that
loved us,
and washed us
from our sins
in his own blood,
And
they sung
a new song,
saying,
Thou art worthy
to take the book,
and
to open the seals
thereof:
for thou
wast slain,
and hast redeemed us
to God
by thy blood
out of every kindred,
and tongue,
and people,
and nation;
Saying
with a loud voice,
Worthy
is
the Lamb
that
was slain
to receive power,
and riches,
and wisdom,
and strength,
and honour,
and glory,
and blessing.
And
I said unto him,
Sir,
thou knowest.
And
he said to me,
These
are
they which
came
out of great tribulation,
and have washed
their robes,
and made them white
in the blood
of the Lamb.
And all that
dwell
upon the earth
shall worship him,
whose names
are not written
in the book
of life
of the Lamb
slain
from the foundation
of the world.