38 Bible Verses about Substitution

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

Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the firstborn that open the womb among the sons of Israel; therefore the Levites shall be mine; because all the firstborn are mine; from the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both of men and of animals; they shall be mine: I am the LORD.

And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the sons of Israel.

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

And he said unto him, Thus hath the LORD said, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man of my anathema, therefore, thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people.

Our fathers have sinned and are dead; and we have borne their chastisements.

Thou shalt sleep upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and he shall accept it to reconcile him.

And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the sons of Israel shall sanctify in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead that they may find grace before the LORD.

and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live he goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their rebellions and all their sins, putting them thus upon the head of the he goat and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man prepared for this; and that he goat shall bear upon itself all their iniquities unto an uninhabitable land; and he shall send the he goat into the wilderness.

ye shall offer of your own free will a male without blemish of the bovine cattle of the sheep or of the goats. But ye shall not offer any thing that has a blemish, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Surely he has borne our sicknesses and suffered our pain: and we considered him stricken, smitten of God, and cast down. But he was wounded for our rebellions; he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his stripes healing was provided for us. All we like sheep have become lost; we have turned each one to his own way; and the LORD transposed in him the iniquity of us all.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.

who, when he was cursed, did not return the curse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously; he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose wound ye were healed. For ye were as sheep that had gone astray, but are now converted unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to serve and to give his life in ransom for many.

For the Christ, when we were yet weak, in his time died for the ungodly.

who died for us, that whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him.

I AM the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

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

But if thy brother is grieved because of thy food, now thou dost not walk in charity. Do not destroy him with thy food, for whom Christ died.

For the charity of the Christ constrains us because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all are dead:

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree),

who gave himself in ransom for all, the testimony of which was confirmed at the time,

who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a people of his own, zealous of good works.

But we see this same Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Because for this were ye called: for the Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps

In this we have known the charity of God because he laid down his life for us; we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose wound ye were healed.

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

For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

so also the Christ is offered once to take away the sins of many; and unto those that wait for him without sin he shall appear the second time unto saving health.

And that he died for all that those who live should not live from now on unto themselves, but unto him who died and rose again for them.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.

that thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me now out of thy book which thou hast written.

For I could wish that myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren, those who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,