Galatians 1:4

Christ gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to God's will. This is the heart of the gospel Paul defends throughout the letter.

Cross-references · 40

• Matt 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• Rom 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
• Gal 2:20I 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 up for me.
• 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 1 Jn 5:19–20We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
• 2 Cor 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.
• Eph 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
• Rom 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
• 1 Th 3:13so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
• Eph 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• Phil 4:20To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
• John 14:30–31I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
• John 12:31Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
• Matt 26:28This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
• Jas 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
• 2 Th 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
• 1 Jn 2:2He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
• Isa 65:17For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
• Rev 5:9And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
• Heb 6:5who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—
• Matt 26:42A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”
• Ps 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• John 15:18–19If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
• Mark 10:45For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• Matt 6:9So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
• Eph 6:12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
• 1 Th 3:11Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
• Rom 8:3For 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,
• Rom 8:32He 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?
• Eph 1:2–3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
• John 5:30I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
• John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

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