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 has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
• Matt 8:17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”
• Rom 6:11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rev 22:2in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
• Jas 5:16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
• Heb 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
• Isa 53:11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
• Rom 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
• Col 3:3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• Rom 6:13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
• Rom 7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
• Ps 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• Rom 6:7For he who has died has been freed from sin.
• Luke 1:74–75to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
• 1 Pet 4:1–2Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
• Deut 21:22–23If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
• Matt 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into 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 heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
• 2 Cor 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Rom 6:16Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
• Heb 12:13and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
• Acts 13:29When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
• Acts 10:35but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
• Ps 38:4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
• Col 2:20If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
• Acts 10:39We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
• Exod 28:38It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
• Lev 16:22The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
• Num 18:22Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
• Matt 27:26Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
• Heb 7:26For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• Eph 5:9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
• John 19:1So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
• Lev 22:9“‘They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

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