Penal Substitutionary Atonement:

In the simplest possible terms, the biblical doctrine of penal substitution holds that Jesus’ sacrifice on
the cross takes the place of the punishment we ought to suffer for our sins. As a result, God’s justice is
satisfied, and those who accept Christ can be forgiven and reconciled to God.

According to the doctrine of penal substitution, God’s perfect justice demands some form of atonement
for sin. Humanity is depraved, to such an extent that we are spiritually dead and incapable of atoning
for sin in any way (Ephesians 2:1). Penal substitution means Jesus’ death on the cross propitiated, or
satisfied, God’s requirement for justice. God’s mercy allows Jesus to take the punishment we deserve
for our sins. As a result, Jesus’ sacrifice serves as a substitute for anyone who accepts it. In a very
direct sense, Jesus is exchanged for us as the recipient of sin’s penalty.

In Genesis 3:21, God uses animal skins to cover the naked Adam and Eve. This is the first reference to
a death (in this case, an animal’s) being used to cover (atone for) sin. In Exodus 12:13, God’s Spirit
“passes over” the homes that are covered (atoned) by the blood of the sacrifice. God requires blood for
atonement in Exodus 29:41–42. The description of Messiah in Isaiah 53:4–6 says His suffering is
meant to heal our wounds. The fact that the Messiah was to be “crushed for our iniquities” (verse 5) is
a direct reference to penal substitution.

During and after Jesus’ ministry, penal substitution is further clarified. Jesus claims to be the “good
shepherd” who lays down His life for the sheep in John 10:10. Paul, in Romans 3:25–26, explains that
we have the righteousness of Christ because of the sacrifice of Christ. In 2 Corinthians 5:21, he says
that the sinless Christ took on our sins. Hebrews 9:26 says that our sins were removed by the sacrifice
of Christ. First Peter 3:18 plainly teaches that the righteous was substituted for the unrighteous.

In penal substitution, the penalty that is due to us for our transgression is paid by a substitute, namely,
Jesus Christ. The principle of penal substitution undergirds the old covenant sacrificial system. God
told Adam that the penalty for sin was death (Gen. 2:16–17). In the old covenant sacrifices, the people
placed their hands on the sacrificial animals, thereby identifying with them, and then the animals were
put to death (see Lev. 4). This depicted the transfer of sin and guilt from the sinner to the substitute.
The sinner could live because the animal died in the sinner’s place, bearing the punishment the sinner
deserved.
But since “it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Heb. 10:4), the animal
sacrifices of the old covenant did not effect true atonement. They were types and shadows that pointed
to the only true atoning sacrifice, which was offered once for all on Calvary by our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ (vv. 5–18). This final and only effective act of penal substitution was foreshadowed by the
entire old covenant sacrificial system and explicitly predicted in Isaiah 53. The prophet tells us that
God laid on the Suffering Servant (Christ) our iniquity (Isa. 53:6)—our sin was transferred to Him in
the atonement. He was pierced and crushed for our iniquities, “cut off out of the land of the living . . .
for the transgression of my people” (vv. 4–5, 8). In other words, Christ endured the punishment His
people deserve in their place. If we trust in Him alone for salvation, we need not fear eternal death, for
Jesus bore our sin on the cross so that we will not receive everlasting judgment (v. 10; John 3:16).

⁶ …the Lᴏʀᴅ has laid on him the iniquity of us all.…

¹⁰ …it was the will of the Lᴏʀᴅ to crush him…

—Isaiah 53:6b, 10a, ESV

⁹ Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from
the wrath of God.

—Romans 5:9, ESV

1 Peter 2:24
1 John 4:10
1 Corinthians 1:4-10
Jeremiah 33:8

In penal substitution, the penalty that is due to us for our transgression is paid by a substitute, namely,
Jesus Christ. The principle of penal substitution undergirds the old covenant sacrificial system. God
told Adam that the penalty for sin was death (Gen. 2:16–17). In the old covenant sacrifices, the people
placed their hands on the sacrificial animals, thereby identifying with them, and then the animals were
put to death (see Lev. 4). This depicted the transfer of sin and guilt from the sinner to the substitute.
The sinner could live because the animal died in the sinner’s place, bearing the punishment the sinner
deserved.
But since “it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Heb. 10:4), the animal
sacrifices of the old covenant did not effect true atonement. They were types and shadows that pointed
to the only true atoning sacrifice, which was offered once for all on Calvary by our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ (vv. 5–18). This final and only effective act of penal substitution was foreshadowed by the
entire old covenant sacrificial system and explicitly predicted in Isaiah 53. The prophet tells us that
God laid on the Suffering Servant (Christ) our iniquity (Isa. 53:6)—our sin was transferred to Him in
the atonement. He was pierced and crushed for our iniquities, “cut off out of the land of the living . . .
for the transgression of my people” (vv. 4–5, 8). In other words, Christ endured the punishment His
people deserve in their place. If we trust in Him alone for salvation, we need not fear eternal death, for
Jesus bore our sin on the cross so that we will not receive everlasting judgment (v. 10; John 3:16).
1. Jesus as the “Ransom for Many”
“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a
ransom for many.” – Mark 10:45 (cf. Matthew 10:28)

This prophetic statement that Jesus makes about himself has clear allusions to the Suffering Servant of
Isaiah 53. The idea that Christ came as a servant hearkens back to the Servant Songs of Isaiah. Mark
has already referenced these songs in his gospel and so this would be in continuing with that theme.
And since the language used in Mark 10:45 closely resembles the language used in Isaiah 53:12
(especially in the Greek versions of these two verses), the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 is in view. It
has been “almost universally assumed that [Mark] 10:45 derived from the suffering of the servant in
Isaiah 53:10-12.”[1] Thus, in Mark 10:45, Jesus identifies himself as the one who bore our griefs
(53:4), carried our sorrows (53:4), was pierced for our transgressions (53:5), was crushed for our
iniquities (53:5), had the iniquity of us all laid on him (53:6), made an offering for guilt (53:10), bore
our iniquities (53:11), was numbered with the transgressors (53:12), and bore the sin of many (53:12).
He is the Suffering Servant who was smitten by God (53:4), crushed by the LORD (53:10), and was put
to grief by him (53:10). The penal substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus is clearly laid out in Isaiah 53.
Moreover, the concept of Jesus dying as a ransom for many also reinforces the thought of substitution.
A ransom is the payment made to release someone from slavery. Thus, Jesus gives his life as payment
for our freedom. His death paid the penalty for our sins. So although the word “ransom” is not found
in Isaiah 53, it still provides “a perfect summary of the servant’s vicarious death on behalf of many
others.”[2]

2. Jesus as the “Lamb of God”

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who
takes away the sin of the world!” – John 1:29 (cf. John 1:36)

Jesus is called “the Lamb of God” twice in John 1. This phrase is jam-packed with Old Testament
themes of substitution and sacrifice. When we consider that Jesus is “the Lamb of God”, we are
reminded of when Abraham told Isaac that God would provide a substitute lamb for the sacrifice
(Genesis 22:8). We remember the Passover lamb that was sacrificed so that God would spare the lives
of his people (Exodus 12:1-13). We recall the lamb led to the slaughter in Isaiah 53:7 (again, a
reference to the Suffering Servant) who was stricken for the transgressions of his people (Isaiah 53:8).
And we also think of the lamb without blemish that God required to be sacrificed as a sin offering for
atonement (Leviticus 4:32-5:6). Under the OT sacrificial system, “the shed blood of the substitute
covered the sins of others and appeased the divine wrath by way of atonement (cf. 1 John 2:2;
4:10).”[3] Therefore, in saying that Jesus is “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world,”
John the Baptist is saying that Christ takes away sin through his sacrificial, substitutionary death.

3. Jesus and “the Cup”

And going a little further he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be
possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” – Matthew
26:39 (cf. Matthew 26:42, Mark 14:36, Luke 22:42, John 18:11)
Hours before his arrest, trial, and subsequent crucifixion, Jesus prays to the Father asking that, if it be
possible, the Father would let the cup pass from him. What does Jesus mean by “the cup”? And why
does Jesus request that this cup “pass from” him? Furthermore, why did Jesus “sweat drops of blood”
(Luke 22:44) as he considered this “cup” he was about to drink? Surely this “cup” must represent
more than just the physical suffering he would endure on the cross, for many before him and many after
him would experience such suffering, including his disciples. The Old Testament helps us answer these
questions. The cup is a common Old Testament metaphor. Consider these verses:
• Jeremiah 25:15 – “Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: ‘Take from my hand this cup
of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.'” (see verses 15-28
for context)
• Isaiah 51:17 – “Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from
the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath..” (see verses 17-23 for context)
• Psalm 75:7-8 – “but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out
from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.”
You can see that in the Old Testament, “the cup” is symbolic of the judgment and wrath of God. Jesus
experienced great anguish, sweat drops of blood, and desired that the cup would pass because he knew
that he was about to bear the wrath of God toward sin on the cross. He knew that he would be
punished in our place as a substitute for sinners.

4. Jesus was “Numbered with the Transgressors”

“For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was numbered with the
transgressors,’ For what is written about me has its fulfillment.” – Luke 22:37

Here Jesus explicitly identifies as the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53. The prophecy, “And he was
numbered with the transgressors,” comes straight from Isaiah 53:12. While other texts in the Gospels
allude to Isaiah 53, this text explicitly quotes from it. In Luke’s Gospel, this quotation from Isaiah 53
appears at the beginning of the passion narrative so that his readers might “understand Isaiah’s fourth
Servant Song as the hermeneutical key to the narrative of Jesus’ suffering and death.”[4] Why is this
important? What is the theological significance of Jesus quoting Isaiah 53:12 as being fulfilled in him?
Listen to how one commentator seeks to answer these questions, “By mentioning the fact that he,
though conscious of his innocence, in fact of his holiness, will, in fulfillment of prophecy, be numbered
with the transgressors, does he not clearly imply that his death is substitutionary in character? Would
Jesus have quoted these words from Isaiah 53:12 if he had not also believed the words which
immediately follow: ‘yet he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors’? How
tragic that, once again, the disciples do not understand the meaning of Christ’s words.”[5] Thus,
Christ quotes Isaiah 53:12 as being fulfilled in himself to shed light on how he was about to be pierced
for our transgressions and crushed by the LORD for our iniquities as the Suffering Servant.

5. Jesus on the “Wrath of God”

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see
life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” – John 3:36
Here Jesus clearly states that the wrath of God remains on those who do not believe in the Son.
However, those who do believe in the Son are no longer under the wrath of God but have been given
eternal life. So there is something about believing in the person and cross-work of Christ that turns
away the wrath of God. This is a central truth to the doctrine of PSA. Christ’s death appeased the
wrath of God toward those who believe in him by faith.

6. Jesus: “For Their Sake I Consecrate Myself”

“And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.” – John
17:19

The language that Jesus uses here closely resembles language used of Old Testament sacrifices.
Sacrifices for sin in the Old Testament are substitutionary by their very nature. An animal without
blemish would be sacrificed to appease God’s wrath as an atonement for the sins of his people. The
animal would be sacrificed for the sake of God’s people. Here in John 17:19, Jesus is reminding us of
his self-sacrifice. The words “for their sake” imply the substitutionary nature of Christ’s sacrifice. The
word “consecrate” alludes to the sacrifice itself. To consecrate means to “set apart”, much like an
animal would be “set apart” for sacrifice. Commenting on this verse, Carson explains, “If Jesus
consecrates himself to perform the Father’s will, he consecrates himself to the sacrifice of the cross – a
theme he registers elsewhere. The point is intimated in this verse by the fact that Jesus sanctifies
himself for them: the language is evocative of atonement passages elsewhere. It is also evocative of
Old Testament passages where the sacrificial animal was ‘consecrated’ or ‘set apart’ for death –
indeed, of language where consecration becomes synonymous with the sacrificial death itself.”[6]
Thus, in John 17:19, Jesus reminds us that he has been set apart to die as a wrath-appeasing sacrifice
in our place.

7. Jesus’ Blood “Poured Out for Many”

“for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of
sins.” – Matthew 26:28 (cf. Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20)

This short verse is teeming with Old Testament meaning. Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper during
Passover. When he identifies the cup of wine with his own blood that will be poured out, he is
identifying with the Passover lamb whose blood was shed to save Israel’s firstborn sons in Egypt. Jesus
is the new Passover lamb whose blood was shed for our salvation. However, there are also again clear
allusions to the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53:12 says that the Servant’s soul would be
“poured out” to death and that he would bear the sins of “many.” Further, the final phrase “for the
forgiveness of sins” recalls how Christ would die for the sins of his people (Isaiah 53:5-6,8,10,11,12).
We’ve seen several times now that Isaiah 53, a passage that clearly articulates the penal
substitutionary atonement of Christ, is central to his teachings on his death and what it accomplished
for his people.

8. Jesus: “My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?”

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema
sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” – Matthew 27:46
(cf. Mark 15:34)
Finally, we arrive at one of Jesus’ final sayings before he breathed his last. This is a saying he uttered
from the cross itself. The very context of this verse is his crucifixion and thus this verse sheds light on
what Jesus was experiencing as he hung there with nails in his feet and hands. Jesus could have asked
why the Jews rejected him or why Judas betrayed him or why the disciples abandoned him or why the
Romans were crucifying him, but instead he cries out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
This is a quote from Psalm 22:1 that David wrote when he too found himself in dire circumstances and
felt forsaken by his God. But why would Jesus utter such a phrase here? It’s because Jesus was
forsaken by the Father as he hung there on the cross. Why? Because he who knew no sin became sin on
the cross (2 Corinthians 5:21). He bore our sins in his body (1 Peter 2:24). He was pierced for our
transgressions (Isaiah 53:5) and crushed by the LORD for our iniquities (Isaiah 53:10). He was now
drinking the cup of God’s wrath that caused him to sweat great drops of blood only hours earlier in the
Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:42-44). We cannot imagine the agony that Christ went through in our
place. He was forsaken that we might be forgiven. Let me close with these words from Spurgeon,
commenting on this text:
“In order that the sacrifice of Christ might be complete, it pleased the Father to forsake his well-
beloved Son. Sin was laid on Christ, so God must turn away his face from the Sin-Bearer. To be
deserted of his God, was the climax of Christ’s grief, the quintessence of his sorrow. See here the
distinction between the martyrs and their Lord; in their dying agonies they have been divinely
sustained; but Jesus, suffering as the Substitute for sinners, was forsaken of God.”

——————————————————–
[1] Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, p. 203.
[2] The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark’s Gospel , p. 72.
[3] Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, p. 428.
[4] Ibid., p. 385.
[5] New Testament Commentary: Exposition of the Gospel of Luke, p. 977.
[6] The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to John, p. 567.
[7] Commentary on Matthew: The Gospel of the Kingdom, p. 429.
84 Bible Verses about Penal Substitution

Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid
on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For
he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty
that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by
men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was
despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we
esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was
crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds
we are healed. ...

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.

Galatians 3:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is
everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

1 John 2:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Mark 10:45 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Colossians 2:13-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive
together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood
against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and
authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
Romans 3:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's
righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

Hebrews 9:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has
appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Isaiah 53:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering
for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his
hand.

Hebrews 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and
faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 5:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their
sake died and was raised.

Romans 8:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously
give us all things?

Isaiah 53:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the
slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

Leviticus 1:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make
atonement for him.
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has
come.

2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore
all have died;

Romans 8:28-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called
according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the
image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he
predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he
also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who
did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us
all things? ...

Romans 4:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

John 17:6-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and
you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have
given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them
and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am
praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are
yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. ...

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 9:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now
I see.”
John 1:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away
the sin of the world!

Mark 8:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders
and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Isaiah 53:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of
many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 53:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God,
and afflicted.

Leviticus 16:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the
Lord and died, and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the
Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will
appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a
bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy linen coat
and shall have the linen undergarment on his body, and he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, and
wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and then put them
on. And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering,
and one ram for a burnt offering. ...

Exodus 12:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of
months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the
tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a
household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take
according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the
lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from
the goats, ...

Genesis 22:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said,
“Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there
as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the
morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut
the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the
third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his young
men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”
...

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall
bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By
his wounds you have been healed.

Ephesians 1:3-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as
sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with
which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, ...

Galatians 4:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of
everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we
also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the
fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those
who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. ...

Galatians 3:10-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does
not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is
justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather
“The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by
becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

Galatians 1:6-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are
turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and
want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a
gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I
say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became
poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them,
and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,
even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not
many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

1 Corinthians 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 9:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 8:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those
whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 5:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who
receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus
Christ. Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to
justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so
by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

Romans 5:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass
brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because
of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the
abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to
justification and life for all men.

Romans 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received reconciliation.

Romans 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that
we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Romans 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as
righteousness,

Romans 3:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's
righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his
righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in
Jesus.
John 10:27-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will
never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is
greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

John 10:11-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand
and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees,
and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for
the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. ...

John 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’
you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish
but have eternal life.

Matthew 21:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
Jeremiah 23:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be
called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

Isaiah 53:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one,
my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the
Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox
knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not
understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal
corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly
estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint. ...