Matthew 20:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.””
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“just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
King James Version · Public Domain“even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 20:28 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 7:15one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
- Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
- Psalms 49:7No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
- Isaiah 53:5But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
- Isaiah 53:8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
- Isaiah 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Matthew 8:20Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
- Matthew 26:28This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
- Mark 14:24He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
- Luke 22:27For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.
- John 10:15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
- John 11:50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
- John 13:4So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.
- Romans 3:24and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
- Romans 5:15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
- Galatians 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- Ephesians 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
- Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- Philippians 2:4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
- 1 Timothy 2:6who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.
- 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.
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