I led them with cords of human kindness,
    with ties of love.(A)
To them I was like one who lifts
    a little child to the cheek,
    and I bent down to feed(B) them.(C)

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32 And I, when I am lifted up[a] from the earth,(A) will draw all people to myself.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:32 The Greek for lifted up also means exalted.

13 I am the Lord your God,(A) who brought you out of Egypt(B) so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke(C) and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

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14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.(A)

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She has not acknowledged(A) that I was the one
    who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,(B)
who lavished on her the silver and gold(C)
    which they used for Baal.(D)

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This is what the Lord says:

“The people who survive the sword
    will find favor(A) in the wilderness;
    I will come to give rest(B) to Israel.”

The Lord appeared to us in the past,[a] saying:

“I have loved(C) you with an everlasting love;
    I have drawn(D) you with unfailing kindness.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:3 Or Lord has appeared to us from afar

In all their distress he too was distressed,
    and the angel(A) of his presence(B) saved them.[a]
In his love and mercy he redeemed(C) them;
    he lifted them up and carried(D) them
    all the days of old.(E)

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  1. Isaiah 63:9 Or Savior in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them

40 They asked,(A) and he brought them quail;(B)
    he fed them well with the bread of heaven.(C)

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23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above
    and opened the doors of the heavens;(A)
24 he rained down manna(B) for the people to eat,
    he gave them the grain of heaven.
25 Human beings ate the bread of angels;
    he sent them all the food they could eat.

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14 I will be his father, and he will be my son.(A) When he does wrong, I will punish him(B) with a rod(C) wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.

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32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven(A) and gives life to the world.”

34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”(B)

35 Then Jesus declared, “I am(C) the bread of life.(D) Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes(E) in me will never be thirsty.(F) 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me(G) will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven(H) not to do my will but to do the will(I) of him who sent me.(J) 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,(K) but raise them up at the last day.(L) 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son(M) and believes in him shall have eternal life,(N) and I will raise them up at the last day.”

41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,(O) whose father and mother we know?(P) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”(Q)

43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,(R) and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[a](S) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;(T) only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.(U) 48 I am the bread of life.(V) 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.(W) 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,(X) which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread(Y) that came down from heaven.(Z) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”(AA)

52 Then the Jews(AB) began to argue sharply among themselves,(AC) “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh(AD) of the Son of Man(AE) and drink his blood,(AF) you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.(AG) 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.(AH) 57 Just as the living Father sent me(AI) and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”(AJ)

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13

32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.’”

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