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10 By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.(A)

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How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath.(A)

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holding fast to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

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14 who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people as his own, eager to do what is good.(A)

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18 realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold(A) 19 but with the precious blood of Christ(B) as of a spotless unblemished lamb.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:19 Christians have received the redemption prophesied by Isaiah (Is 52:3), through the blood (Jewish symbol of life) of the spotless lamb (Is 53:7, 10; Jn 1:29; Rom 3:24–25; cf. 1 Cor 6:20).

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from all sin.(A)

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and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us[a] from our sins by his blood,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:5 Freed us: the majority of Greek manuscripts and several early versions read “washed us”; but “freed us” is supported by the best manuscripts and fits well with Old Testament imagery, e.g., Is 40:2.