^3-4 For I passed down to you the crux of it all which I had also received from others, that the Anointed One, the Liberating King, died for our sins and was buried and raised from the dead on the third day. All this happened to fulfill the Scriptures; it was the perfect climax to God’s covenant story.

⁴ He is the very Savior who rescues us from this present, perverse age dominated by evil by giving His life according to our Father’s will to deal with our sins.

¹² But after He stepped up to offer His single sacrifice for sins for all time, He sat down in the position of honor at the right hand of God.

²⁴ He took on our sins in His body when He died on the cross^[a] so that we, being dead to sin, can live for righteousness. As the Scripture says, “Through His wounds, you were healed.”^[b]

¹⁸ The Anointed One suffered for sins once for all time—the righteous suffering for the unrighteous—so that He might bring us to God. Though He died in the flesh, He was made alive again through the Spirit.

⁵ and from Jesus the Anointed, the Witness who is true and faithful, the first to emerge from death’s cold womb, the chosen Ruler over all the kings and rulers of the earth.

To the One who loves us and liberated us from the grip of our evil deeds through His very own blood