Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,