“He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered...

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.”

“My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.”

“For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,”