¹⁷ This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said,

¹¹ So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.

² It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit,^[a] with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations.

¹⁶ Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

² Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?

²⁹ Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God’s children.

²⁸ so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.

¹³ But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”^[a]