38 Bible Verses about Substitution

And Abraham will lift up his eyes, and will see and behold a ram behind, being held in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham will come and take the ram and bring it for a burnt offering instead of his son.

And I, behold, I took the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, instead of all the first-born cleaving the womb from the sons of Israel: and the Levites were to me. For to me all the first-born: in the day I struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to me every first-born in Israel, from man to cattle: to me they shall be: I am Jehovah.

And I will take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel.

If he shall be able to war with me and strike me, and we were to you for servants: and if I shall be able against him and strike him, and ye were to us for servants, and ye served us.

And he will say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Because thou sentest away a man I devoted to destruction from thy hand, and thy soul being instead of his soul, and thy people instead of his people.

Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities.

And lie thou upon thy left side, and put the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: the number of days which thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt lift up their iniquity.

And he placed his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering, and it was accepted for him to expiate for him.

And it shall be upon the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron lifted up the iniquity of the holies, which the sons of Israel shall consecrate for all their holy gifts; and it shall be upon his forehead continually for acceptance to them before Jehovah.

And Aaron placed his two hands upon the head of the living he goat and confessed over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions, and all their sins, and gave them upon the head of the he goat, and sent by the hand of a fit man to the desert And the he goat lifted up upon him all their iniquities to a desert land: and he sent the he goat into the desert

For your acceptance a blameless male among the cattle, among the sheep, and among the goats. And every one which in it is a blemish ye shall not bring it: for it shall not be for acceptance for you.

Surely he lifted up our afflictions, and our griefs he carried them: and we reckoned him to be smitten, struck of God, and afflicted. And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities; the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed to us. All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.

So that that spoken by Esaias the prophet was completed, saying. He took our weakness, and lifted up diseases.

Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly; Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls.

For the zeal of thy house devoured me, and the reproaches of those reproaching thee fell upon me.

For also the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.

For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.

He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Neither turn ye in your thoughts that it is profitable to us, that one man die for the people, and the nation perish not.

And if by food thy brother is grieved, thou no more walkest by love. Not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died.

For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:

I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:

Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people. zealous of good works.

But we see Jesus, made some little while less than angels by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste of death for all.

For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:

In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.

Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:

For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.

So Christ, once offered to have borne the sins of many, of the second time, without sin, shall be seen to them expecting him for salvation.

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

Greater love than this has none, that any lay down his life for his friends.

And now if thou wilt, lift up their sin; and if not, wipe me off from thy book which thou didst write.

For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: