The Cross

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.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

…and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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.”

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

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.