Galatians 3:13

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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

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  • Deut 21:23 : 23 his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • Gal 4:5 : 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • 1 Pet 1:18-21 : 18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake. 21 Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.
  • Acts 5:30 : 30 The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
  • 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One, 2 and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.
  • Heb 9:28 : 28 so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.
  • Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. 6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in. 7 “Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’” 8 When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law), 9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second. 10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • Heb 7:26-27 : 26 For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 27 He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.
  • Heb 9:12 : 12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.
  • Isa 55:10-12 : 10 The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat. 11 In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.” 12 Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.
  • Jer 44:22 : 22 Finally the LORD could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.
  • Jer 49:13 : 13 For I solemnly swear,” says the LORD,“that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”
  • Dan 9:24 : 24 “Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Matt 27:5 : 5 So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.
  • Josh 10:26-27 : 26 Then Joshua executed them and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening. 27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave.(They remain to this very day.)
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.
  • 2 Sam 18:10 : 10 When one of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying,“I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”
  • 2 Sam 18:14-15 : 14 Joab replied,“I will not wait around like this for you!” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree. 15 Then ten soldiers who were Joab’s armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.
  • 2 Sam 21:3 : 3 David said to the Gibeonites,“What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless the LORD’s inheritance?”
  • 2 Sam 21:9 : 9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the LORD. The seven of them died together; they were put to death during harvest time– during the first days of the beginning of the barley harvest.
  • 2 Kgs 22:19 : 19 ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people. You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the LORD.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.
  • Esth 9:14 : 14 So the king issued orders for this to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.
  • Isa 55:5-7 : 5 Look, you will summon nations you did not previously know; nations that did not previously know you will run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he bestows honor on you. 6 Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby! 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.
  • Rom 3:24-26 : 24 But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 25 God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed. 26 This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.
  • Rom 4:25 : 25 He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.
  • Rom 8:3-4 : 3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed– cut off from Christ– for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

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    8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.”

    9So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

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    11Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

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    14in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

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    14He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

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    39We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

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    21Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

    22But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.

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    24Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

    25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

    26For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

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    23his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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    5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

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    24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

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    3And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

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    21God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

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    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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    29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.

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    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

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    4For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

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    14But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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    30The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

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    14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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    29When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

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    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

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    3For I could wish that I myself were accursed– cut off from Christ– for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

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    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

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    18Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

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    21I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

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    17What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.