1 Peter 2:24

Christ bore our sins in his body on the cross so that, dead to sin, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds we are healed. Jesus' death both atones for sin and frees us to live rightly.

Cross-references · 40

• Isa 53:4–6Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
• Matt 8:17This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took on our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
• Rom 6:11So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
• Rev 22:2down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• Jas 5:16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
• Heb 9:28so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
• Isa 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
• Rom 6:2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
• Col 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
• Rom 6:13Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
• John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
• Rom 7:6But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
• Ps 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
• Rom 6:7For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
• Luke 1:74–75deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
• 1 Pet 4:1–2Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
• Deut 21:22–23If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
• Matt 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
• Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
• Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.
• 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
• Rom 6:16Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
• Heb 12:13Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
• Acts 13:29When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.
• Acts 10:35but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.
• Ps 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
• Col 2:20If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
• Acts 10:39We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,
• Exod 28:38And it will be worn on Aaron’s forehead, so that he may bear the iniquity of the holy things that the sons of Israel consecrate with regard to all their holy gifts. It shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be acceptable before the LORD.
• Lev 16:22The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.
• Num 18:22No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.
• Matt 27:26So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.
• Heb 7:26Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
• Eph 5:9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
• John 19:1Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.
• Lev 22:9The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

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