Romans 3:25

God presented Christ as the atoning sacrifice whose blood satisfies divine justice for those who believe. The cross both forgives sin and upholds God's righteousness.

Cross-references · 40

• Rom 3:23–24For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
• 1 Pet 1:18–20Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• 1 Jn 4:10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
• 1 Jn 2:2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
• Rom 5:9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
• Heb 9:14–22How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Col 1:20–23And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
• Acts 13:38–39Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
• Acts 17:30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
• Heb 10:4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
• Lev 16:15Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
• Heb 11:7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
• Exod 25:17–22And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
• Heb 11:39–40And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
• Rev 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
• Heb 10:19–20Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
• Ps 22:31They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
• Rom 5:1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Heb 9:25–26Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
• Rev 20:15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
• Rom 4:1–8What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
• Heb 11:14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
• Ps 119:142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
• Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
• John 6:53–58Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
• Heb 11:17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
• Rom 3:26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
• 1 Jn 1:10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
• Acts 3:18But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
• Rom 2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
• Heb 9:5And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
• Rom 5:11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
• Acts 4:28For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
• Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• 1 Tim 1:15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
• Acts 15:18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
• Ps 50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
• Ps 40:10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
• Ps 97:6The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
• John 6:47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

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