16 Bible Verses about Significance Of Christ's Crucifixion
Most Relevant Verses
Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!
but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,
I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.
For though he was crucified in his weakness, he lives by the power of God; and though I am weak as he was weak, you will find I am alive as he is alive by the power of God.
O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you ??you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?
and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.
and by him it willed to reconcile in his own person all on earth and in heaven alike, in a peace made by the blood of his cross.
and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt ??where their Lord also was crucified.
He cancelled the regulations that stood against us ??all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,
he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.
so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross;
But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.
Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.
I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!
These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
