24 Bible Verses about Substitution

in fulfilment of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "He took our sickness and carried away our diseases."

He was abused but he did not retort. He suffered but he did not threaten, but committed his case to him who judges justly. He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."

For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.

who died for us so that whether we are still alive or fall asleep we may live with him.

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd will give his life for his sheep.

"You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

who gave himself as a ransom for all men. This is what was testified to at the proper times,

He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

but we do see Jesus, who was "made for a little while inferior to angels, crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death, so that by the favor of God he might taste the bitterness of death on behalf of every human being.

That is the life to which you have been called, for Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow his footsteps.

We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

so the Christ too, after being offered in sacrifice once for all to carry away the sins of many, will appear again but without any burden of sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him to come and save them.

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends.

for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred.