38 Bible Verses about Substitution

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, a ram was caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

"I [myself] receive the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites} in the place of all [the] firstborn of [the] offspring of the womb from the {Israelites}. The Levites will be mine because all [the] firstborn [are] mine; on the day of my killing all [the] firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for myself all [the] firstborn in Israel, {both humankind and animal}; they will be mine. I am Yahweh."

and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the {Israelites}.

If he [is] able to fight with me and he defeats me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail over him and defeat him, then you will be our servants and you will serve us."

He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have let the man I devoted for destruction go from [your] hand, your life shall be in place of his life and your people in place of his people.'"

Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.

And you, lie down on your left side, and you must put the guilt of the house of Israel on it. You will carry their guilt the number of days that you will lie on it.

" 'He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering and it will be accepted for him [in order] to make atonement for him.

And it will be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron will bear the guilt of the holy objects that the {Israelites} will consecrate for all their holy gifts, and it will be on his forehead continually for acceptance for them before Yahweh.

And Aaron shall place his two hands on the living goat's head, and he shall confess over it all the {Israelites}' iniquities and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall put them on the goat's head, and he shall send [it] away into the desert {with} a man [standing] ready. Thus the goat shall bear on it to {a barren region} all their guilt, and he shall send the goat away into the desert.

[it must be] without defect {to be acceptable for you}: a male among the cattle, among the sheep, or among the goats. You shall not present any [animal] in which [is] a physical defect, because it shall not be {acceptable} for you.

However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down [by] God and afflicted. But he [was] pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace [was] upon him, and by his wounds {we were healed}. All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

in order that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "He himself took away our sicknesses, and carried away our diseases."

who [when he] was reviled, did not revile in return; [when] suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted [himself] to the one who judges justly, who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that [we] may die to sins [and] live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed. For you were going astray like sheep, but you have turned back now to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life [as] a ransom for many."

For [while] we were still helpless, yet at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live at the same time with him.

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

Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish."

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

For the love of Christ controls us, [because we] have concluded this: that one died for all; as a result all died.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that [life] I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law [by] becoming a curse for us, because it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree,"

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony at the proper time,

who gave himself for us, in order that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good deeds.

but we see Jesus, for a short [time] made lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that apart from God he might taste death on behalf of everyone.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps,

We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that [we] may die to sins [and] live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, in order that he could bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

He made the one who did not know sin [to be] sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.

thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.

And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

And now if you will forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me from your scroll that you have written."

For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen according to the flesh,