LIMITED ATONEMENT VS. UNLIMITED ATONEMENT:
2 Pet. 3:9
NLT 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.
1 Tim. 2:4,6
NLT 1 Timothy 2:3 This is good and pleases God our Savior,
NLT 1 Timothy 2:4 who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.
NLT 1 Timothy 2:6 He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message God gave to the world at just the right time.
Isa. 53:6
NLT Isaiah 53:6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all.
Rev. 2:21
NLT Revelation 2:21 I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to turn away from her immorality.
John 3:16
NLT John 3:16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
1 Tim. 4:10
NLT 1 Timothy 4:10 This is why we work hard and continue to struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers.
Titus 2:11
NLT Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people.
1 John 2:2
NLT 1 John 2:2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins– and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.
Ezekiel 18: 23,32
NLT Ezekiel 18:23 “Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.
NLT Ezekiel 18:32 I don’t want you to die, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn back and live!
Romans 11:32
NIV Romans 11:32 For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
Romans 5:18
NLT Romans 5:18 Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone.
Rom. 8:32
NLT Romans 8:32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?
John 12:32
NLT John 12:32 And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”
Hebrews 2:9
NIV Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
2 Cor. 5:19
NIV 2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
John 6:33,51
NLT John 6:33 The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
NLT John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and this bread, which I will offer so the world may live, is my flesh.”
John 1:29
NLT John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
1 John 4: 14
NLT 1 John 4:14 Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Rom. 5:18
NLT Romans 5:18 Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone.
Acts 17:30
NLT Acts 17:30 “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him.
Isa. 45:21-22
NLT Isaiah 45:21 Consult together, argue your case. Get together and decide what to say. Who made these things known so long ago? What idol ever told you they would happen? Was it not I, the LORD? For there is no other God but me, a righteous God and Savior. There is none but me.
NLT Isaiah 45:22 Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other.
John 1:7
NLT John 1:7 to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony.
Col. 1:20
NLT Colossians 1:20 and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.
John 7:37
NLT John 7:37 On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!
Rev. 22:17
NLT Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” Let anyone who hears this say, “Come.” Let anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who desires drink freely from the water of life.
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