Bible Verses on Atonement

Genesis 3:21
The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

Leviticus 4: 33-35 (Septuagint)
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin-offerings, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill the victims for whole-burnt-offerings. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger…the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 16: 7-10 (Septuagint)
And he shall take the two goats, and place them before the Lord by the door of the tabernacle of witness. 
 and Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scape-goat.  And Aaron shall bring forward the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and shall offer him for a sin-offering.  And the goat upon which the lot of the scape-goat came, he shall present alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon him, so as to send him away as a scape-goat, and he shall send him into the wilderness.

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul. 

Exodus 12:12-13
“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.

Isaiah 53:5-6  (Septuagint)
“the chastisement of our peace was upon him…and the Lord gave him up for our sins”  

Isaiah 53:10 (KJV)
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him
; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin 

Isaiah 53:10 (Septuagint)
The Lord also is pleased to purge him from his stroke. If ye can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed

Isaiah 53:12 (Septuagint)
“because his soul was delivered to death: and he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities.

Isaiah 53:12 (KJV)
because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

(Zechariah 13:7)
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered

Psalm 22:1
‘My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?’ 

Psalm 38: 2-3
Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me. Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 49:7
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough

Psalm 69:4
Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.

Psalm 69:26
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Psalm 72:1
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

Psalm 88:6-9
You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them.

Psalm 101:1
I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

Sirach 5:6
Do not say, “His mercy is great,  he will forgive the multitude of my sins,” for both mercy and wrath are with himand his anger rests on sinners.

Jeremiah 38:10-11 (Septuagint)
Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations, and proclaim them to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock. For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them that were stronger than he.

Matthew 26: 26-28
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Mark 14:27
“You will all fall away,” Jesus told them, “for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

Luke 24:7
The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again. 

John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

John 19:11
Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above

Romans 3:25-26
God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Romans 4:15
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.

Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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

Romans 5:8-10
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through him! 

Romans 6:3-7
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life…Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all
–how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

2 Corinthians 5:14 
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father 

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.

Ephesians 2:3-4
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the  flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
…and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead–Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

2 Cor 5:21
For He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

Colossians 2:13-14
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 

Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 9:14
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 9:15
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

Hebrews 9:22
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Hebrews 9:26-28
But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Hebrews 10:10
Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 13:11-13
The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.  

1 John 1:1-2
But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

1 John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Galatians 3:10, 13
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law…Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.  

1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.  

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

Revelation 7:14
And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 19:13, 15-16
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God…He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS


Related: Additional Verses on Atonement

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