Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
I have a love-hate relationship with space movies. Stars and planets and comets are fantastic, and yet so much can potentially go horribly wrong when we humans throw our fragile little bodies out into space. All it takes is one tiny part of a spaceship or spacesuit to malfunction, and everyone is either fried or frozen.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.