Jesus said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it."—Luke 9:23-24Thoughts on Today's Verse..."I've just got to get away and find myself
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.—1 Peter 2:24Thoughts on Today's Verse...Jesus bore our sins. He didn't just carry them to the cross; he also suffered the penalty we deserved for those sins.
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. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.—Romans 5:6-
The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.—Hebrews 1:3Thoughts on Today's Verse...Jesus was Immanuel, God with us (M
If, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life.—Romans 5:10Thoughts on Today's Verse...Jesus didn't just die for our sins; he is alive forever for you and me. In fact, he is at God's ri
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.—Galatians 2:20Thoughts on Today's Verse...When we were baptized into Christ, we shared in his crucifixion and burial,
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.—James 5:16Thoughts on Today's Verse...To confess and be rid of our guilt of sin is to do three things with our sin: Recognize sin for what it is in Go
