The following list does not include references to "offerings" and use of the word "given" in the New Testament, which would make the list entirely too long. The offerings we give must be what is commanded or they do not please but rather displease God. God's wrath, for instance, broke out upon the sons of Levi who offered "strange fire" in Leviticus 10. It is also interesting to note that in Hebrews 9:23 Paul speaks of Christian "sacrifices" in the plural, an obvious refence to the Eucharist - sacrifice requires a priest. Liturgical Churches have priests; others do not. True priests offer what Jesus instituted, saying, :This is my body ... This is my blood given for you."
Sacrifice:
166 times, among them:
Exodus
3:18 And they will listen to your voice,
and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him,
‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a
three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our
God.’
Exodus
5:3 Then they said, “The God of the
Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the
wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
Exodus
8:26-28 But Moses said, “It would not be
right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God are an
abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the
Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? We must go three days'
journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he tells us.” So Pharaoh said, “I will
let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you must
not go very far away. Plead for me.”
Exodus
12:27 you shall say, ‘It is the
sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for he
passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the
Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and
worshiped.
Exodus
13:15 For when Pharaoh stubbornly
refused to let us go, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice
to the Lord all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my
sons I redeem.’
Leviticus
7:18 If any of the flesh of the
sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it
shall not be accepted, neither shall it
be credited to him. It is tainted, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
This
is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they
sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the
priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices
of peace offerings to the LORD. And
the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of
the tent of meeting and burn the fat for
a pleasing aroma to the LORD. (Leviticus 17:5-6 ESV)
Leviticus
19:5 “When you offer a sacrifice of
peace offerings to the Lord, you shall
offer it so that you may be accepted.
Numbers
15:3 and you offer to the Lord from the
herd or from the flock a food offering1 or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to
fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Footnotes
[1] 15:3 Or an
offering by fire; so throughout Numbers
Deuteronomy
27:7 and you shall sacrifice peace
offerings and shall eat there, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.
Jeremiah
46:10 That day is the day of the Lord
God of hosts, a
day of vengeance, to
avenge himself on his foes. The
sword shall devour and be sated and
drink its fill of their blood. For
the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in
the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jonah
1:16 Then the men feared the Lord
exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
Zephaniah
1:7 Be silent before the Lord God! For
the day of the Lord is near; the
Lord has prepared a sacrifice and
consecrated his guests.
Ephesians
5:2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for
us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Philippians
4:18 I have received full payment, and
more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent,
a fragrant offering, a sacrifice
acceptable and pleasing to God.
Hebrews
9:26 for then he would have had to
suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has
appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews
11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more
acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous,
God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he
died, he still speaks.
Atonement: 78 times:
Exodus
29:33 They shall eat those things with
which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider
shall not eat of them, because they are holy.
Exodus
29:36 and every day you shall offer a
bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you
make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.
Exodus
29:37 Seven days you shall make
atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy.
Whatever touches the altar shall become holy.
Exodus
30:10 Aaron shall make atonement on its
horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall
make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most
holy to the Lord.”
Exodus
30:15 The rich shall not give more, and
the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the Lord's
offering to make atonement for your lives.
Exodus
30:16 You shall take the atonement money
from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting,
that it may bring the people of Israel
to remembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives.”
Exodus
32:30 The next day Moses said to the
people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps
I can make atonement for your sin.”
Leviticus
1:4 He shall lay his hand on the head of
the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Leviticus
4:20 Thus shall he do with the bull. As
he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the
priest shall make atonement for them, and they
shall be forgiven.
Leviticus
4:26 And all its fat he shall burn on
the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest
shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus
4:31 And all its fat he shall remove, as
the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on
the altar for a pleasing aroma to the
Lord. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus
4:35 And all its fat he shall remove as
the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the
priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the Lord's food offerings. And the
priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus
5:6 he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation1 for the sin that he has
committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering.
And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.
Footnotes
[1] 5:6 Hebrew his
guilt penalty; so throughout
Leviticus
Leviticus
5:10 Then he shall offer the second for
a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for
him for the sin that he has committed, and he
shall be forgiven.
Leviticus
5:13 Thus the priest shall make
atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these
things, and he shall be forgiven.
And the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”
Leviticus
5:16 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss
in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And
the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and
he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus
5:18 He shall bring to the priest a ram
without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering, and
the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made
unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus
6:7 And the priest shall make atonement
for him before the Lord, and he shall be
forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”
Leviticus
6:30 But no sin offering shall be eaten
from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in
the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire.
Leviticus
7:7 The
guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them.
The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
Leviticus
8:15 And he killed it, and Moses took
the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and
purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and
consecrated it to make atonement for it.
Leviticus
8:34 As has been done today, the Lord
has commanded to be done to make atonement for you.
Leviticus
9:7 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near
to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make
atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people
and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.”
Leviticus
10:17 “Why have you not eaten the sin
offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the
iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?
Leviticus
12:7-8 and he shall offer it before the
Lord and make atonement for her. Then she shall be clean from the flow of her
blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female. And if
she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons,
one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall
make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”
Leviticus
14:18-21 And the rest of the oil that is
in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed.
Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. The priest shall
offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from
his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. And the priest
shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the
priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. But if he is poor
and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt
offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of
fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;
Leviticus
14:29 And the rest of the oil that is in
the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to
make atonement for him before the Lord.
Leviticus
14:31 one for a sin offering and the
other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest shall
make atonement before the Lord for him who is being cleansed.
Leviticus
14:53 And he shall let the live bird go
out of the city into the open country. So he shall make atonement for the
house, and it shall be clean.”
Leviticus
15:15 And the priest shall use them, one
for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall
make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge.
Leviticus
15:30 And the priest shall use one for a
sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make
atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge.
Leviticus
16:6 Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin
offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.
Leviticus
16:10 but the goat on which the lot fell
for Azazel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it,
that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.
Leviticus
16:11 Aaron shall present the bull as a
sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his
house. He shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.
Leviticus
16:16-18 Thus he shall make atonement
for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and
because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the
tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. No
one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in
the Holy Place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for
his house and for all the assembly of Israel. Then he shall go out to the altar
that is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the
blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of
the altar all around.
Leviticus
16:24 And he shall bathe his body in
water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt
offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself
and for the people.
Leviticus
16:27 And the bull for the sin offering
and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement
in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. Their skin and their
flesh and their dung shall be burned up with fire.
Leviticus
16:30 For on this day shall atonement be
made for you to cleanse you. You shall
be clean before the Lord from all your sins.
Leviticus
16:32-34 And the priest who is anointed
and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing
the holy linen garments. He shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he
shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall
make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. And this
shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people
of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” And Aaron did as the
Lord commanded Moses.
Leviticus
17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you
on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes
atonement by the life.
Leviticus
19:22 And the priest shall make
atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his
sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has
committed.
Leviticus
23:27-28 Now on the tenth day of this
seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy
convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to
the Lord. And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of
Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.
Leviticus
25:9 Then you shall sound the loud
trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you
shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
Numbers
5:8 But if the man has no next of kin to
whom restitution may be made for the
wrong, the restitution for wrong shall
go to the Lord for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with
which atonement is made for him.
Numbers
6:11 and the priest shall offer one for
a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him,
because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head
that same day
Numbers
8:12 Then the Levites shall lay their
hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering
and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord to make atonement for the
Levites.
Numbers
8:19 And I have given the Levites as a
gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service
for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the
people of Israel, that there may be no
plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the
sanctuary.”
Numbers
8:21 And the Levites purified themselves
from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering
before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
Numbers
15:25 And the priest shall make
atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was
a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord,
and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake.
Numbers
15:28 And the priest shall make atonement
before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins
unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
Numbers
16:46-47 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take
your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and
carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord;
the plague has begun.” So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of
the assembly. And behold, the plague had
already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement
for the people.
While
Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.
These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate
and bowed down to their gods. So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the
anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. And the LORD said to Moses, “Take
all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the
fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.” And Moses said to the
judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves
to Baal of Peor.”
And behold, one of the people of
Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses
and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they
were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. When Phinehas the son of
Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and
took a spear in his hand and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and
pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus
the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. Nevertheless, those who died by
the plague were twenty-four thousand.
And the LORD said to Moses,
“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath
from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them,
so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy. Therefore say,
‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and to his
descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made
atonement for the people of Israel.’” (Numbers 25:1-13 ESV)
Numbers
28:22 also one male goat for a sin
offering, to make atonement for you.
Numbers
28:30 with one male goat, to make
atonement for you.
Numbers
29:5 with one male goat for a sin
offering, to make atonement for you;
Numbers
29:11 also one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the regular burnt offering
and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.
Numbers
31:50 And we have brought the Lord's
offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet
rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”
Numbers
35:33 You shall not pollute the land in
which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it,
except by the blood of the one who shed it
Deuteronomy
21:8 Accept atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel, whom you have
redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your
people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.
2
Samuel 21:3 And David said to the
Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you
may bless the heritage of the Lord?”
1
Chronicles 6:49 But Aaron and his sons
made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for
all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make atonement for Israel,
according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
2
Chronicles 29:24 and the priests
slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make
atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and
the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
Nehemiah
10:33 for the showbread, the regular
grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the
appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for
Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Ezekiel
43:20 And you shall take some of its
blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the
ledge and upon the rim all around. Thus you shall purify the altar and make
atonement for it.
Ezekiel
43:26 Seven days shall they make
atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it.1
Footnotes
[1] 43:26 Hebrew
fill its hand
Ezekiel
45:15 And one sheep from every flock of two
hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering,
and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel
45:17 It shall be the prince's duty to
furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the
feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house
of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt
offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
45:20 You shall do the same on the
seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance;
so you shall make atonement for the temple.
Atone:
5 times
Psalm
65:3 When iniquities prevail against me, you
atone for our transgressions.
Psalm
79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for
the glory of your name; deliver
us, and atone for our sins, for
your name's sake!
Isaiah
47:11 But evil shall come upon you, which
you will not know how to charm away; disaster
shall fall upon you, for
which you will not be able to atone; and
ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of
which you know nothing.
Ezekiel
16:63 that you may remember and be
confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone
for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”
Daniel
9:24 “Seventy weeks are decreed about
your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to
sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal
both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place
Atoned: 7 times
Deuteronomy
21:8 Accept atonement, O Lord, for your
people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent
blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned
for.’
1
Samuel 3:14 Therefore I swear to the
house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by
sacrifice or offering forever.”
Psalm
78:38 Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger
often and did not stir up all his
wrath.
Proverbs
16:6 By steadfast love and faithfulness
iniquity is atoned for, and
by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
Isaiah
6:7 And he touched my mouth and said:
“Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin
atoned for.”
Isaiah
22:14 The Lord of hosts has revealed
himself in my ears: “Surely
this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,” says
the Lord God of hosts.
Isaiah
27:9 Therefore by this the guilt of
Jacob will be atoned for, and
this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when
he makes all the stones of the altars like
chalkstones crushed to pieces, no
Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Footnotes
[1] 27:9
Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
Propitiation: 4 times
Romans
3:25-26 whom God put forward as a
propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's
righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 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.
Hebrews
2:17 Therefore he had to be made like
his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful
high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the
people.
1
John 2:2 He is the propitiation for our
sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1
John 4:10 In this is love, not that we
have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins
Sacrifice
(aka atonement and propitiation) is necessitated by the wrath of God: over 200 times, 35 in the New Testament. This forms an argument called a
corollary: we are under wrath (John
3:36); therefore, we need to appease God with a pleasing sacrifice for sins
that turns away his wrath. The
evangelical view is that we have nothing in our hand to offer so must receive by faith the offering that God put
forth on our behalf as a gift (again Romans 3:25). Though Romans 3:25 is part of Paul’s polemic
against Judaizing teachers, who wanted to exclude un-circumcised Gentile
believers, Hebrews makes it clear that it is true in every case because the
previous sacrificial cultus was inadequate, “For it is impossible for the blood
of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Hebrews 10:4 ESV) nor could it perfect
devotees that offered them (9:9 and 10:1).
But as Christians “we have been sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10 ESV).
Additionally:
But when Christ appeared as a high priest
of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect
tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for
all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by
means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood
of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a
heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish
to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant,
so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance,
since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed
under the first covenant. For where a will is involved, the death of the one
who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since
it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Therefore not even
the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of
the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of
calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both
the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant
that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood
both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost
everything is purified with blood, and without
the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Thus it was necessary for the copies of
the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into
holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into
heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it
to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every
year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly
since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all
at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as
it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ,
having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time,
not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. (Hebrews
9:11-28 ESV)
The
next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God,
who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29 ESV)
The
next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at
Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” (John 1:35-36 ESV)
But
on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of
the grace given me by God to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in
the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles
may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:15-16 ESV)
For
Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the
festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5:7-8 ESV)
