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16:1 For Christ belongeth unto them that are humble, not unto them that exalt
themselves over his flock.
16:2 Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the sceptre of the majesty of God, came
not in the arrogance of boasting and pride, though he was able to do so; but in
humility, even as the Holy Spirit spake concerning him.
16:3 For he saith, Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom hath the
arm of the Lord been revealed? Like a child have we delivered our message before
him; he is as a root in a thirsty land.
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There is no form nor glory in him, and
we beheld him, and he had neither form nor comeliness, but his form was
despised, lacking comeliness, beyond the form of the sons of men. He was a man
stricken and in toil, knowing how to bear infirmity, for his face was turned
away; it was dishonoured and held in no reputation.
16:4 He beareth our sins and suffereth pain on our account, and we esteemed
him as one in toil, stricken and afflicted.
16:5 He was wounded for our sins, and for our transgressions did he suffer
infirmity; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we
were healed.
16:6 All we, like sheep, have gone astray, every one hath erred in his own
way,
16:7 and the Lord hath given him up for our sins; and he, through affliction,
openeth not his mouth.
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He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb
before its shearers is dumb, so openeth he not his mouth.
16:8 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and who shall declare
his generation, for his life is taken from the earth;
16:9 for the iniquity of my people he hath come unto death.
16:10 And I will give the wicked in requital for his burial, and the rich for
his death: for he did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: and the Lord
willeth to purify him from stripes.
16:11 If ye make an offering for sin your soul shall prolong its days.
16:12 And the Lord willeth to take away from the travail of his soul, to show
him light and to form him by knowledge, to justify the righteous man who serveth
many well; and their sins he shall bear himself.
16:13 Wherefore he shall receive the inheritance of many, and shall divide
the spoils of the strong, because his soul was delivered up unto death, and he
was numbered among the transgressors,
16:14 and he bore the sins of many, and was given up for their sins.
16:15 And again he saith, I am a worm and no man -- a reproach of men and
despised of the people;
16:16 all they who saw me mocked me, they spake with their lips, they shook
the head; he hoped in God, let him deliver him, let him save him, because he
desireth him.
16:17 See, beloved, what is the example that hath been given unto us; for if
the Lord so humbled himself, what shall we do who have through his mercy come
under the yoke of his grace?