and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves ¹  have forgiven our debtors.

During the feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd, ¹  whomever they wanted.

During the feast it was customary to release one prisoner to the people, ¹  whomever they requested.

So Pilate asked them, ¹  “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?”

“Blessed ¹  be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help ²  and has redeemed ³  his people.

When ¹  they had heard my case, ²  they wanted to release me, ³  because there was no basis for a death sentence ⁴  against me.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, ¹  there is freedom.

For I testify, they gave according to their means and beyond their means. They did so voluntarily, ¹ 

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights. ¹ 

in whom we have boldness and confident access ¹  to God ²  because of ³  Christ’s ⁴  faithfulness. ⁵ 

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.

saying to the sixth angel, the one holding ¹  the trumpet, “Set free ²  the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”

If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go ¹  where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell ²  her; ³  you must not take advantage of ⁴  her, since you have already humiliated ⁵  her.

to proclaim the year ¹  of the Lord’s favor.” ² 

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; ¹  only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, ²  but through love serve one another. ³ 

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires ¹  that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to ²  each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

And so he is the mediator ¹  of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, ²  since he died ³  to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

and sprinkle it seven times on the one being cleansed ¹  from the disease, pronounce him clean, ²  and send the live bird away over the open countryside. ³ 

The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land, ¹  so he is to send the goat away ²  in the wilderness.

but then ¹  he may go free, ²  he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors. ³