The Holy and Righteous One
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Holy and Righteous One. We humans rejected and murdered him.
Acts 3:14. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Acts 7:52. Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
James 5:6. You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
1 Peter 3:18. Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
1 John 2:1. My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
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