1 Peter 2:24

God's Word

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so that freed from our sins, we could live a life that has God’s approval. His wounds have healed you.

Cross References

Genesis 22:6

Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and gave it to his son Isaac. Abraham carried the burning coals and the knife. The two of them went on together.

Psalm 147:3

He is the healer of the brokenhearted. He is the one who bandages their wounds.

Psalm 38:4

My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear.

Exodus 28:38

It will be on Aaron’s forehead. He’s the one to be blamed for anything done wrong when the Israelites bring their holy offerings—whatever their gifts may be. The medallion must always be on Aaron’s forehead so that the Lord will accept their offerings.

Proverbs 20:30

Brutal beatings cleanse away wickedness. Such beatings cleanse the innermost being.

Isaiah 53:11

He will see and be satisfied because of his suffering. My righteous servant will acquit many people because of what he has learned ⌞through suffering⌟. He will carry their sins as a burden.

Leviticus 16:22

The goat will take all their sins away to a deserted place. The man must release the goat in the desert.

Leviticus 22:9

The priests must do what I order, or their sin will bring them death because they dishonored a holy offering. I am the Lord, who sets them apart as holy.

Malachi 4:2

“The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings for you people who fear my name. You will go out and leap like calves let out of a stall.

Numbers 18:22

The other Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting. Otherwise, they’ll suffer the consequences of their sin and die.

Numbers 7:15

a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb as a burnt offering;

Matthew 27:26

Then Pilate freed Barabbas for the people. But he had Jesus whipped and handed over to be crucified.

Matthew 5:20

I can guarantee that unless you live a life that has God’s approval and do it more faithfully than the experts in Moses’ Teachings and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 8:17

So what the prophet Isaiah had said came true: “He took away our weaknesses and removed our diseases.”

Mark 15:15

Pilate wanted to satisfy the people, so he freed Barabbas for them. But he had Jesus whipped and handed over to be crucified.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is with me. He has anointed me to tell the Good News to the poor. He has sent me to announce forgiveness to the prisoners of sin and the restoring of sight to the blind, to forgive those who have been shattered by sin,

John 1:29

John saw Jesus coming toward him the next day and said, “Look! This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

John 19:1

Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped.

Acts 10:35

Rather, whoever respects God and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.

Acts 10:39

We can testify to everything Jesus did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. People hung him on a cross and killed him,

Acts 13:29

When they had finished doing everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

Acts 5:30

You murdered Jesus by hanging him on a cross. But the God of our ancestors brought him back to life.

Romans 6:11

So consider yourselves dead to sin’s power but living for God in the power Christ Jesus gives you.

Romans 6:13

Never offer any part of your body to sin’s power. No part of your body should ever be used to do any ungodly thing. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have come back from death and are now alive. Offer all the parts of your body to God. Use them to do everything that God approves of.

Romans 6:16

Don’t you know that if you offer to be someone’s slave, you must obey that master? Either your master is sin, or your master is obedience. Letting sin be your master leads to death. Letting obedience be your master leads to God’s approval.

Romans 6:2

That’s unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin’s influence?

Romans 6:22

Now you have been freed from sin and have become God’s slaves. This results in a holy life and, finally, in everlasting life.

Romans 6:7

The person who has died has been freed from sin.

Romans 7:6

But now we have died to those laws that bound us. God has broken their effect on us so that we are serving in a new spiritual way, not in an old way dictated by written words.

1 Corinthians 15:3

I passed on to you the most important points of doctrine that I had received: Christ died to take away our sins as the Scriptures predicted.

2 Corinthians 6:17

The Lord says, “Get away from unbelievers. Separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with anything unclean. Then I will welcome you.”

Galatians 3:13

Christ paid the price to free us from the curse that the laws in Moses’ Teachings bring by becoming cursed instead of us. Scripture says, “Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.”

Ephesians 5:9

Light produces everything that is good, that has God’s approval, and that is true.

Philippians 1:11

Jesus Christ will fill your lives with everything that God’s approval produces. Your lives will then bring glory and praise to God.

Colossians 2:14

He did this by erasing the charges that were brought against us by the written laws God had established. He took the charges away by nailing them to the cross.

Colossians 2:20

If you have died with Christ to the world’s way of doing things, why do you let others tell you how to live? It’s as though you were still under the world’s influence.

Colossians 3:3

You have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Hebrews 10:10

We have been set apart as holy because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do by sacrificing his body once and for all.

Hebrews 10:5

For this reason, when Christ came into the world, he said, “ ‘You did not want sacrifices and offerings, but you prepared a body for me.

Hebrews 12:13

Keep walking along straight paths so that your injured leg won’t get worse. Instead, let it heal.

Hebrews 7:26

We need a chief priest who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, and who holds the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne.

Hebrews 9:28

Likewise, Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of humanity, and after that he will appear a second time. This time he will not deal with sin, but he will save those who eagerly wait for him.

James 5:16

So admit your sins to each other, and pray for each other so that you will be healed. Prayers offered by those who have God’s approval are effective.

1 John 2:29

If you know that Christ has God’s approval, you also know that everyone who does what God approves of has been born from God.

1 John 3:7

Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you. Whoever does what God approves of has God’s approval as Christ has God’s approval.

Revelation 22:2

Between the street of the city and the river there was a tree of life visible from both sides. It produced 12 kinds of fruit. Each month had its own fruit. The leaves of the tree will heal the nations.