Bible Verses About The Cross & Atonement

To those on the way to destruction, the message of the cross is foolishness; but to us who are being saved, it is God’s power.

For you know the price of your release from the useless way of living you inherited from your forefathers. That price was not silver or gold, things that decay, but the precious blood of Christ, who was like a lamb without flaw or stain.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, there is the Lamb of God, who carries away the sin of the world!

how much more will the blood of Christ wash our conscience clean of dead works, so that we may worship the living God! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself to God, a sacrifice without flaw.

In him and through his blood we have redemption, the forgiveness of our wrongdoing. We have it because God’s grace is so rich,

When Jesus had taken the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and handed over his spirit.

But it was for our rebellions that he was pierced through, for our guilt that he was crushed. On him fell the discipline that won our peace, and his welts have brought us healing.

He was despised and shunned by everyone, a man of pains, no stranger to sickness. People turned their faces away from him; he was despised, and we counted him as nothing.

And all of it is God’s doing. Through Christ he has reconciled us to himself, and he has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

God put him forward as the means of atonement, by his blood, to be received through faith. He did this to show his righteousness, since he had passed over the sins committed before,

I am no longer the one who lives; Christ lives in me. Whatever life I still have in the flesh is a life lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and handed himself over for my sake.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse on our behalf, for it is written, “A curse is on everyone who is hung on a tree.”