He who was delivered over because of our wrongdoings, and was raised because of our justification.
Parallel translations
- WEB who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
- KJV Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
- BSB He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
- NKJV who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.
- NLT He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.
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Quick answer
Jesus was handed over to death for our sins and raised for our justification. His death and resurrection together secure our right standing with God.
Overview
This summary of the gospel links Christ's death and resurrection to the believer's salvation: he was 'delivered up for our trespasses' and 'raised for our justification.' His death pays for sin, and his resurrection vindicates and secures the righteousness credited to us. The verse anchors justification by faith in the historical work of Christ.
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- 1 Jn 4:9–10By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- Isa 53:5–6But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
- Gal 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father —
- 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 1 Jn 2:2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
- Rom 5:6–8For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- 1 Cor 15:17If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
- Zech 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
- Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
- Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
- 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
- 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.
- Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
- Heb 10:12–14but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Rom 3:25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
- Heb 4:14–16Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
- 1 Cor 15:3–4For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
- Rom 8:32–34He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
- 1 Pet 1:18–19knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
- Isa 53:10–12Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
- Rom 5:18So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- 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,”
- Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Rev 7:14I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
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