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Deuteronomy 30:11-14
“ For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far away.It is not in heaven, that you could say,‘ Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us, and proclaim it to us, so that we may follow it?’Nor is it beyond the sea, that you could say,‘ Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and proclaim it to us, so that we may follow it?’On the contrary, the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may follow it.
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Ephesians 4:8-10
Therefore it says,“ When He ascended on high, He led captive the captives, And He gave gifts to people.”( Now this expression,“ He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)
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John 3:12-13
If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?No one has ascended into heaven, except He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
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Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or His Son’s name? Surely you know!
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John 6:50-51
This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat from it and not die.I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world also is My flesh.”
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Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
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Philippians 3:9
and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
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John 6:38
For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
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John 6:33
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”
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Romans 3:25
whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in God’s merciful restraint He let the sins previously committed go unpunished;
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Hebrews 1:3
And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
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Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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John 6:58
This is the bread that came down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died; the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
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Romans 3:22
but it is the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction,
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Romans 9:30-31
What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is by faith;however, Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.