‘Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.’
—1 Peter 2:24

‘And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’
—Mark 15:34

‘Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.’
—Hebrews 10:25

‘I must needs go home by the way of the cross,
There's no other way but this;
I shall ne'er get sight of the gates of light,
If the way of the cross I miss.

‘I must needs go on in the blood sprinkled way,
The path that the Savior trod,
If I ever climb to the heights sublime,
Where the soul is at home with God.

‘Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,
To walk in it nevermore;
For the Lord says, "Come," and I seek my home
Where He waits at the open door.’
—Jessie Brown Pounds (1861-1921)

‘The Lᴏʀᴅ is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?’
—Psalm 27:1

‘I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lᴏʀᴅ in the land of the living.
‘Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lᴏʀᴅ.’
—Psalm 27:13, 14

‘Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.’
—Hebrews 4:13

‘And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
‘…
‘Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God’
—Luke 2:26,28

‘In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise’
—Ephesians 1:13

‘My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
‘And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.’
—John 10:27 & 28

‘This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.’
—1 Timothy 1:15