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 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• Rom 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
• 1 Jn 5:19–20We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
• Eph 2:2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
• 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Phil 4:20Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
• John 14:30–31I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• John 12:31Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
• Matt 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
• Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• 1 Jn 2:2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• Isa 65:17“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.
• Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• Heb 6:5and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
• Matt 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
• Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
• John 15:18–19If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• Mark 10:45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• Matt 6:9Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
• Eph 6:12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
• 1 Th 3:11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
• Eph 1:2–3Grace to you and peace 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 the will of him who sent me.
• John 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
• John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

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