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David’s refusal to offer what cost him nothing in 2 Samuel 24:24 illustrates costly worship but does not define every biblical sacrifice.", "scope_note": "Believers’ sacrifices are responsive worship and obedience, not meritorious or atoning counterparts to Christ’s unique sacrifice. 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David’s refusal to offer what cost him nothing in 2 Samuel 24:24 illustrates costly worship but does not define every biblical sacrifice.", "strongest_alternative_explanation": null, "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.", "theological_intersections": [ "SANCTIFICATION" ], "scripture_references": [ { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001442", "osis_start": "Rom.12.1", "osis_end": null, "display_label": "Romans 12:1", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001443", "osis_start": "Heb.13.15", "osis_end": "Heb.13.16", "display_label": "Hebrews 13:15–16", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001444", "osis_start": "2Sam.24.24", "osis_end": null, "display_label": "2 Samuel 24:24", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" } ], "source_citations": [ { "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001", "author_editor": null, "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison", "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1", "locator": null, "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "source_function": [ "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY", "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT" ], "locator_targets": [] } ], "s8_wording_provenance": null } ] } ], "lexeme_mappings": [], "canonical_relationships": [ { "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0091", "title": "Sacrifice", "canonical_statement": "Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: Ephesians 5:2 explicitly calls Christ’s self-giving an offering and sacrifice to God, while Hebrews 10:1–14 identifies the law’s sacrifices as shadow and contrasts their repetition with Christ’s once-for-all offering; the Christological sacrificial fulfillment is therefore explicit and canonically controlled.", "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER", "guardrails": [], "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION" }, { "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0092", "title": "Sacrifice", "canonical_statement": "Reclassified according to the narrower S3 adjudicated contextual sense: Romans 12:1 calls believers to present their bodies as a living sacrifice, and Hebrews 13:15–16 explicitly calls praise, doing good, and sharing sacrifices pleasing to God; this establishes a non-atoning saintly-sacrifice sense while disproving any universal equation of sacrifice with “the death of another.”", "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER", "guardrails": [], "relationship_status": "RECLASSIFIED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION" } ], "negative_guardrails": [] }