John 12:24
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24 Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit.
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1 Corinthians 15:36-38
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36 Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.(A) 37 And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen and to each kind of seed its own body.
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Isaiah 53:10-12
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10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction.
When you make his life an offering for sin,[a]
he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.(A)
11 Out of his anguish he shall see;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one,[b] my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.(B)
12 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out himself to death
and was numbered with the transgressors,
yet he bore the sin of many
and made intercession for the transgressors.(C)
Hebrews 2:9-10
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9 but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower[a] than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God[b] he might taste death for everyone.(A)
10 It was fitting that God,[c] for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.(B)
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John 12:32-33
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32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people[a] to myself.”(A) 33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.
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- 12.32 Other ancient authorities read all things
Psalm 22:22-31
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22 I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters;[a]
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:(A)
23 You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him;
stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!(B)
24 For he did not despise or abhor
the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me[b]
but heard when I[c] cried to him.(C)
25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will pay before those who fear him.(D)
26 The poor[d] shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!(E)
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before him.[e](F)
28 For dominion belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.(G)
29 To him,[f] indeed, shall all who sleep in[g] the earth bow down;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
and I shall live for him.[h](H)
30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord(I)
31 and[i] proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
saying that he has done it.(J)
Footnotes
- 22.22 Or kindred
- 22.24 Heb him
- 22.24 Heb he
- 22.26 Or afflicted
- 22.27 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb you
- 22.29 Cn: Heb They have eaten and
- 22.29 Cn: Heb all the fat ones
- 22.29 Compare Gk Syr Vg: Heb and he who cannot keep himself alive
- 22.31 Compare Gk: Heb it will be told about the Lord to the generation,
they will come and
Revelation 7:9-17
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The Multitude from Every Nation
9 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.(A) 10 They cried out in a loud voice, saying,
“Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!”(B)
11 And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 singing,
“Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom
and thanksgiving and honor
and power and might
be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”(C)
13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?” 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.(D)
15 For this reason they are before the throne of God
and worship him day and night within his temple,
and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.(E)
16 They will hunger no more and thirst no more;
the sun will not strike them,
nor any scorching heat,(F)
17 for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of the water of life,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”(G)
Psalm 72:16
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16 May there be abundance of grain in the land;
may it wave on the tops of the mountains;
may its fruit be like Lebanon;
and may people blossom in the cities
like the grass of the field.(A)
Psalm 22:15
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15 my mouth[a] is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.(A)
Footnotes
- 22.15 Cn: Heb strength
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