38 Bible Verses about Substitution

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind [him] a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the first-born who opens the womb among the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall be mine, for all the first-born are mine. On the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed to me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be mine. I am LORD.

And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel.

If he is able to fight with me, and kill me, then we will be your servants, but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then ye shall be our servants, and serve us.

And he said to him, Thus says LORD, Because thou have let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.

Moreover lay thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. [According to] the number of the days that thou shall lay upon it, thou shall bear their iniquity.

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead. And Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the sons of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts. And it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins. And he shall put them upon the head of the goat, a And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities to a solitary land. And he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.

that ye may be accepted, [ye shall offer] a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats. But whatever has a blemish, that ye shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, He himself took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.

Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously. Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed. For ye were like sheep going astray, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach thee have fallen upon me.

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

For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.

So that, whether we are awake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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

nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not the whole nation should perish.

For if thy brother is distressed because of food, thou no longer walk according to love. Do not destroy with thy food that man for whom Christ died.

For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony for their own times.

who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the heavenly agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man.

For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.

By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,

For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

so also the Christ, having been offered once in order to take up the sins of many, will appear a second time, independent of sin, to those waiting for him for salvation.

And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends.

Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin--, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.

For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,