Atonement: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:

Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. …

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. …

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.

And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

…and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

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

When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! …

As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

…explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.

Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

…and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. …

He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

…through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. …

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! …

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

…but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

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

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

…that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

…who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

…to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. …

…and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

…in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, …

For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

…who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. …

Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. …

…to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

…equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers, …

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

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

But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.

…and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.