12 Then He said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from Me.”(A)

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16 and said, “By Myself I have sworn,”(A) this is the Lord’s declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,[a]

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  1. Genesis 22:16 Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg add from Me

26 My dear[a] people, dress yourselves in sackcloth
and roll in the dust.(A)
Mourn as you would for an only son,(B)
a bitter lament,
for suddenly the destroyer(C) will come on us.(D)

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  1. Jeremiah 6:26 Lit Daughter of My

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning(A)
and all your songs into lamentation;(B)
I will cause everyone[a] to wear sackcloth(C)
and every head to be shaved.(D)
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son(E)
and its outcome like a bitter day.

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  1. Amos 8:10 Lit every loin

“He still had one to send, a beloved(A) son. Finally(B) he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

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12 Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow.(A) A large crowd from the city was also with her.

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16 “For God loved(A) the world in this way:[a] He gave His One and Only(B) Son,(C) so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.(D)

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  1. John 3:16 The Gk word houtos, commonly translated in Jn 3:16 as “so” or “so much” occurs over 200 times in the NT. Almost without exception it is an adverb of manner, not degree (for example, see Mt 1:18). It only means “so much” when modifying an adjective (see Gl 3:3; Rv 16:18). Manner seems primarily in view in Jn 3:16, which explains the HCSB‘s rendering.

God’s love was revealed among us in this way:[a] God sent(A) His One and Only Son(B) into the world so that we might live(C) through Him.

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  1. 1 John 4:9 Or revealed in us

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