³³ Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

³² Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin-- and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

⁷ For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

⁸ But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

⁹ Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

¹⁰ For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

²² By so much has Jesus become the collateral of a better covenant.