¹⁵ “When he slaughters the male goat for the people’s sin offering and brings its blood inside the veil, he must do the same with its blood as he did with the bull’s blood: he is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.

¹⁶ In past generations He allowed all the nations^(A) to go their own way,

³⁰ “Therefore, having overlooked^(A) the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,

¹² for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek,^(A) since the same Lord^(B) of all^(C) is rich to all who call on Him.

²² But the Scripture has imprisoned everything under sin’s power,^[a](A) so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ^(B) might be given to those who believe.^(C)

⁸ For you are saved by grace^(A) through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—