1 Peter 1:19
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19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.(A)
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1 John 1:7
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7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.(A)
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1 Peter 2:22-24
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22 “He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
23 When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.(A) 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,[a] so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds[b] you have been healed.(B)
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John 1:29
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The Lamb of God
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!(A)
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Revelation 5:9
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9 They sing a new song:
“You are worthy to take the scroll
and to break its seals,
for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God
saints from[a] every tribe and language and people and nation;(A)
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Hebrews 9:12-14
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12 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.(A) 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified,(B) 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit[a] offered himself without blemish to God, purify our[b] conscience from dead works to worship the living God!(C)
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John 1:36
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36 and as he watched Jesus walk by he exclaimed, “Look, here is the Lamb of God!”(A)
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Colossians 1:14
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14 in whom we have redemption,[a] the forgiveness of sins.
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Ephesians 1:7
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7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace(A)
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Exodus 12:5
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5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.(A)
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Revelation 1:5
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5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and freed[a] us from our sins by his blood
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- 1.5 Other ancient authorities read washed
1 John 2:2
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2 and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.(A)
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Matthew 20:28
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28 just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”(A)
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Revelation 7:14
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14 I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.(A)
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Acts 20:28
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28 Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God[a] that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.[b](A)
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Isaiah 53:7
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7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.(A)
1 Peter 3:18
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18 For Christ also suffered[a] for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you[b] to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,(A)
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Matthew 26:28
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28 for this is my blood of the[a] covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.(A)
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Acts 8:32-35
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32 Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:
“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter,
and like a lamb silent before its shearer,
so he does not open his mouth.(A)
33 In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.”
34 The eunuch asked Philip, “About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35 Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus.(B)
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1 Corinthians 5:7-8
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7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.(A) 8 Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.(B)
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Daniel 9:24
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24 “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.[a](A)
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Revelation 14:1
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The Lamb and the 144,000
14 Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion! And with him were one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.(A)
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Revelation 5:6
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6 Then I saw between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders a Lamb standing as if it had been slaughtered, with seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.(A)
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Zechariah 13:7
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The Shepherd Struck, the Flock Scattered
7 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who is my associate,”
says the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.(A)
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