Galatians 1:3-5

New King James Version

³Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴^(A)who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us ^(B)from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

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Isaiah 53

New King James Version

The Sin-Bearing Messiah

53 Who ^(A)has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no ^[a]form or ^[b]comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no ^[c]beauty that we should desire Him.
³^(B)He is despised and ^[d]rejected by men,
A Man of ^[e]sorrows and ^(C)acquainted with ^[f]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and ^(D)we did not esteem Him.

⁴Surely ^(E)He has borne our ^[g]griefs
And carried our ^[h]sorrows;
Yet we ^[i]esteemed Him stricken,
^[j]Smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵But He was ^(F)wounded^[k] for our transgressions,
He was ^[l]bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His ^(G)stripes^[m] we are healed.
⁶All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord ^[n]has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet ^(H)He opened not His mouth;
^(I)He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
⁸He was ^(J)taken from ^[o]prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For ^(K)He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
⁹^(L)And ^[p]they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any ^(M)deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lord to ^[q]bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul ^(N)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.
¹¹^[r]He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge ^(O)My righteous ^(P)Servant shall ^(Q)justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
¹²^(R)Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
^(S)And He shall divide the ^[s]spoil with the strong,
Because He ^(T)poured out His soul unto death,
And He was ^(U)numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And ^(V)made intercession for the transgressors.

Footnotes

Isaiah 53:2 Stately form
Isaiah 53:2 splendor
Isaiah 53:2 Lit. appearance
Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
Isaiah 53:3 Lit. pains
Isaiah 53:3 Lit. sickness
Isaiah 53:4 Lit. sicknesses
Isaiah 53:4 Lit. pains
Isaiah 53:4 reckoned
Isaiah 53:4 Struck down
Isaiah 53:5 Or pierced through
Isaiah 53:5 crushed
Isaiah 53:5 Blows that cut in
Isaiah 53:6 Lit. has caused to land on Him
Isaiah 53:8 confinement
Isaiah 53:9 Lit. he or He
Isaiah 53:10 crush
Isaiah 53:11 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX From the labor of His soul He shall see light
Isaiah 53:12 plunder

John 3:16-21

New King James Version

¹⁶^(A)For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten ^(B)Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷^(C)For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

¹⁸^(D)“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹And this is the condemnation, ^(E)that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰For ^(F)everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. ²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been ^(G)done in God.”