Christ Suffered for Us

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That Christ died (and, of course, this involved suffering) for us is so widely mentioned in Scripture, and likely to be so well known to you, that it is hardly worth citing examples. Nevertheless, here are some.

Isaiah 53:4-6, 11 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; . . . he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; . . . the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. . . . My righteous servant will justify many . . . and he will bear their iniquities.

Mark 10:45 For the Son of Man . . . came . . . to give his life as a ransom for many

John 10:15 . . . I lay down my life for the sheep.

Romans 4:25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

Romans 5:6, 8  . . . Christ died for the ungodly. . . . while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 14:15 . . . him for whom Christ died.

2 Corinthians 5:15 He died for all . . .

2 Corinthians 5:21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 1:4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age . . .

Galatians 2:20 . . . the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Galatians 3:13 Christ 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,”

Ephesians 1:7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood . . .

Ephesians 5:2 . . . Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Ephesians 5:25  . . . Christ also loved the assembly [church], and gave himself up for it

Colossians 1:22  . . . he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him

Hebrews 9:28  . . . Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many . . .

Titus 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession . . .

1 Timothy 2:6 who gave himself as a ransom for all . . .

1 Peter 1:18-19 . . . you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ

1 Peter 2:21, 24 . . . Christ also suffered for us . . . who 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.

1 Peter 3:18 . . . Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God . . .

1 John 1:7 . . . the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 3:16 . . . he laid down his life for us.

1 John 4:9-10 . . . God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. . . . sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Revelation 1:5 . . . To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood

Revelation 5:9 . . . you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood . . .

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