Quotes About Sacrifice

After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

On the third day, they threw the shipís tackle overboard with their own hands.

So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.

After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.

But the centurion, wanting to spare Paulís life, thwarted their plan. He commanded those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

For at just the right time, while 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.

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did Godís grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.

And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?

Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of Godís mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.