24 Bible Verses about Substitution

in order that this prediction of the Prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, "He took on Him our weaknesses, and bore the burden of our diseases."

When He was reviled, He did not answer with reviling; when He suffered He uttered no threats, but left His wrongs in the hands of the righteous Judge. The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed. For you were straying like lost sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Protector of your souls.

For the Son of Man also did not come to be waited upon, but to wait on others, and to give His life as the redemption-price for a multitude of people."

For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.

who died on our behalf, so that whether we are awake or are sleeping we may share His Life.

"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."

If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.

For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this--that One having died for all, His death was their death,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

Christ has purchased our freedom from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us--because "Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree."

who gave Himself as the redemption price for all--a fact testified to at its own appointed time,

who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

But Jesus--who was made a little inferior to the angels in order that through God's grace He might taste death for every human being--we already see wearing a crown of glory and honour because of His having suffered death.

And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps.

We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.

so the Christ also, having been once offered in sacrifice in order that He might bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, separated from sin, to those who are eagerly expecting Him, to make their salvation complete.

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

For I could pray to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brethren, my human kinsfolk--for such the Israelites are.