Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.