Zechariah 9:11
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11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.(A)
Isaiah 51:14
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14 The oppressed shall speedily be released;
they shall not die and go down to the Pit,
nor shall they lack bread.(A)
Exodus 24:8
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8 Moses took the blood and dashed it on the people, and said, “Here is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”(A)
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Psalm 102:19-21
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19 that he looked down from his holy height,
from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,(A)
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die,(B)
21 so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion
and his praise in Jerusalem,(C)
1 Corinthians 11:25
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25 In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
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Isaiah 42:7
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7 to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
from the prison those who sit in darkness.(A)
Matthew 26:28
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28 for this is my blood of the[a] covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.(A)
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- 26.28 Other ancient authorities add new
Hebrews 10:29
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29 How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?(A)
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Mark 14:24
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24 He said to them, “This is my blood of the[a] covenant, which is poured out for many.(A)
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- 14.24 Other ancient authorities add new
Isaiah 61:1
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The Good News of Deliverance
61 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me
because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and release to the prisoners,(A)
Isaiah 49:9
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9 saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”
to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”
They shall feed along the ways;
on all the bare heights[a] shall be their pasture;(A)
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- 49.9 Or the trails
Psalm 107:10-16
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10 Some sat in darkness and in gloom,
prisoners in misery and in irons,(A)
11 for they had rebelled against the words of God
and spurned the counsel of the Most High.(B)
12 Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor;
they fell down, with no one to help.(C)
13 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress;(D)
14 he brought them out of darkness and gloom,
and broke their bonds apart.(E)
15 Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wonderful works to humankind.(F)
16 For he shatters the doors of bronze
and cuts in two the bars of iron.(G)
Psalm 69:33
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33 For the Lord hears the needy
and does not despise his own who are in bonds.(A)
Psalm 40:2
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2 He drew me up from the desolate pit,[a]
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.(A)
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- 40.2 Cn: Heb pit of tumult
Luke 22:20
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20 And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.[a]
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Deuteronomy 5:31
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31 But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, the statutes and the ordinances, that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’(A)
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Hebrews 13:20
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Benediction
20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,(A)
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Acts 26:17-18
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17 I will rescue you from your people and from the gentiles—to whom I am sending you(A) 18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’(B)
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Luke 4:18
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18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to set free those who are oppressed,(A)
Isaiah 58:12
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12 Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;
you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
you shall be called the repairer of the breach,
the restorer of streets to live in.(A)
Isaiah 42:22
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22 But this is a people robbed and plundered;
all of them are trapped in holes
and hidden in prisons;
they have become a prey with no one to rescue,
a spoil with no one to say, “Restore!”(A)
Psalm 30:3
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3 O Lord, you brought up my soul from Sheol,
restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.[a](A)
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- 30.3 Or that I should not go down to the Pit
Hebrews 9:10-26
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10 but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.(A)
11 But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come,[a] then through the greater and more perfect tent[b] (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation),(B) 12 he entered once for all into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.(C) 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified,(D) 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit[c] offered himself without blemish to God, purify our[d] conscience from dead works to worship the living God!(E)
15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.[e](F) 16 Where a will[f] is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. 17 For a will[g] takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. 18 Hence not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.(G) 19 For when every commandment had been told to all the people by Moses in accordance with the law, he took the blood of calves and goats,[h] with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,(H) 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.” 21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent[i] and all the vessels used in worship.(I) 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.(J)
Christ’s Sacrifice Takes Away Sin
23 Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.(K) 25 Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the holy place year after year with blood that is not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself.(L)
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- 9.11 Other ancient authorities read good things to come
- 9.11 Or tabernacle
- 9.14 Other ancient authorities read Holy Spirit
- 9.14 Other ancient authorities read your
- 9.15 The Greek word used here means both covenant and will
- 9.16 The Greek word used here means both covenant and will
- 9.17 The Greek word used here means both covenant and will
- 9.19 Other ancient authorities lack and goats
- 9.21 Or tabernacle
Colossians 1:13-14
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13 He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,(A) 14 in whom we have redemption,[a] the forgiveness of sins.
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- 1.14 Other ancient authorities add through his blood
Jeremiah 38:6
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6 So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.(A)
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