30 Bible Verses about The Effect Of Christ's Death

For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received-that Christ died for our sins (as the Scriptures had foretold),

For Christ himself died to atone for sins once for all--the good on behalf of the bad--that he might bring you to God; his body being put to death, but his spirit entering upon new Life.

That, whether we are still watching or have fallen asleep, we may live with him.

No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, shall we be saved by virtue of Christ's Life.

Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless.

It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died; And that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.

What our eyes do see is Jesus, who was made for a while lower than angels, now, because of his sufferings and death, crowned with glory and honour; so that his tasting the bitterness of death should, in God's loving-kindness, be on behalf of all mankind.

I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.

Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father--and I lay down my life for the sheep.

"You are utterly mistaken. You do not consider that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation should be destroyed."

It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews, that it was best that one man should die for the people.

Now he did not say this of his own accord; but, as High Priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation--

For Jesus 'was given up to death to atone for our offences,' and was raised to life that we might be pronounced righteous.

For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the Life that he now lives, he lives for God.

And that is why he is the intermediary of a new Covenant; in order that, as a death has taken place to effect a deliverance from the offenses committed under the first Covenant, those who have received the Call may obtain the eternal inheritance promised to them.

Just as the Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

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

For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors, but by precious blood, as it were of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the Blood of Christ.

We have learned to know what love is from this--that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives on behalf of our Brothers.

The very purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this--that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death-till he comes.

But now he has reconciled you to himself by the sacrifice of Christ's earthly body in death--it has pleased God that you should stand in his presence holy, pure, and blameless,

In truth I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains solitary; but, if it dies, it becomes fruitful.

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, shall draw all men to myself."

If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died!

Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of 'the Children,' Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death--that is, the Devil--

My mission from Christ was not to baptize, but to tell the Good News; not, however, in the language of philosophy, lest the cross of the Christ should be robbed of its meaning.