The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, (A)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and (B)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast (C)love and faithfulness,

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(A)keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] (B)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but (C)who will by no means clear the guilty, (D)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

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  1. Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
    evil may not dwell with you.
The (A)boastful shall not (B)stand before your eyes;
    you (C)hate all evildoers.
You destroy those who speak (D)lies;
    the Lord abhors (E)the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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(A)I am weary with my crying out;
    (B)my throat is parched.
(C)My eyes grow dim
    with (D)waiting for my God.

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19 You know my (A)reproach,
    and my shame and my dishonor;
    my foes are all known to you.
20 (B)Reproaches have broken my heart,
    so that I am in (C)despair.
I (D)looked for (E)pity, but there was none,
    and for (F)comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me (G)poison for food,
    and for my thirst they gave me (H)sour wine to drink.

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The Lord is (A)merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
(B)He will not always chide,
    nor will he (C)keep his anger forever.
10 He does not deal with us (D)according to our sins,
    nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For (E)as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his (F)steadfast love toward (G)those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
    so far does he (H)remove our transgressions from us.

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Behold, the Lamb of God

29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, (A)the Lamb of God, who (B)takes away the sin (C)of the world!

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For God So Loved the World

16 “For (A)God so loved (B)the world,[a] (C)that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not (D)perish but have eternal life. 17 For (E)God did not send his Son into the world (F)to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:16 Or For this is how God loved the world

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

13 Now (A)before (B)the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that (C)his hour had come (D)to depart out of this world to the Father, (E)having loved (F)his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

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The Death of Jesus

28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now (A)finished, said ((B)to fulfill the Scripture), (C)“I thirst.” 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, (D)so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, (E)“It is finished,” and he bowed his head and (F)gave up his spirit.

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The Righteousness of God Through Faith

21 But now (A)the righteousness of God (B)has been manifested apart from the law, although (C)the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God (D)through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. (E)For there is no distinction: 23 for (F)all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 (G)and are justified (H)by his grace as a gift, (I)through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God (J)put forward as (K)a propitiation (L)by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in (M)his divine forbearance he had passed over (N)former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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25 (A)who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised (B)for our justification.

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For (A)God has done what the law, (B)weakened by the flesh, (C)could not do. (D)By sending his own Son (E)in the likeness of sinful flesh and (F)for sin,[a] he condemned sin in the flesh,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:3 Or and as a sin offering

God's Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? (A)If God is for us, who can be[a] against us? 32 (B)He who did not spare his own Son but (C)gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? (D)It is God who justifies. 34 (E)Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—(F)who is at the right hand of God, (G)who indeed is interceding for us.[b]

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  1. Romans 8:31 Or who is
  2. Romans 8:34 Or Is it Christ Jesus who died… for us?

24 (A)He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we (B)might die to sin and (C)live to righteousness. (D)By his wounds you have been healed.

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18 For Christ also (A)suffered[a] (B)once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, (C)that he might bring us to God, being put to death (D)in the flesh but made alive (E)in the spirit,

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  1. 1 Peter 3:18 Some manuscripts died

14 And (A)we have seen and testify that (B)the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of (C)the world.

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