The Cross, The Power of God
He is despised and rejected by men,
a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
and by His stripes we are healed.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
[Isaiah 53:3-5; John 3:16; John 15:13; Romans 3:5; Romans 4:25; Romans 5:6; Romans 5:7; Romans 8:32; Romans 8:39; 1 John 4:10; 1 Corinthians 1:18]
a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
and by His stripes we are healed.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
[Isaiah 53:3-5; John 3:16; John 15:13; Romans 3:5; Romans 4:25; Romans 5:6; Romans 5:7; Romans 8:32; Romans 8:39; 1 John 4:10; 1 Corinthians 1:18]
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