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Luke 13:10 NRSV

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

Luke 13:11 NRSV

And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight.

Luke 13:12 NRSV

When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.”

Luke 13:13 NRSV

When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.

Luke 13:14 NRSV

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.”

Luke 13:15 NRSV

But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water?

Luke 13:16 NRSV

And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?”

Luke 13:17 NRSV

When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.

Isaiah 43:7 NRSV

everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Genesis 1:26 NRSV

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

Genesis 2:18 NRSV

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”