Atonement

Atonement is the covering or removal of sin and the reconciling of people to God. This page lists verses on the Day of Atonement in the Law, the suffering servant in Isaiah, the death of Jesus for sin, and propitiation and reconciliation.

The Day of Atonement in the Law

• Leviticus 16:29-30
  ²⁹And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: ³⁰For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.
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• 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 maketh an atonement for the soul.
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• Leviticus 23:27-28
  ²⁷Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. ²⁸And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.
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The suffering servant

• Isaiah 53:4-6
  ⁴Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. ⁶All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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• Isaiah 53:10-11
  ¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. ¹¹He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
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Jesus' death for sin

• Mark 10:45
  For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
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• John 1:29
  The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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• Romans 3:23-25
  ²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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• Romans 5:8-11
  ⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. ¹⁰For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. ¹¹And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
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• 2 Corinthians 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.
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In Hebrews

• Hebrews 9:12
  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
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• Hebrews 9:22
  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
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• Hebrews 9:28
  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.
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• Hebrews 10:10
  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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• Hebrews 10:14
  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
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Propitiation and reconciliation

• 1 John 2:2
  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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• 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.
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• Colossians 1:20
  And, 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.
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• 1 Peter 2:24
  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
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• 1 Peter 3:18
  For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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See also

• Crucifixion of Jesus
• Salvation
• Forgiveness
• Covenant

Notes

1. Verses are quoted in the translation chosen in the Translation menu at the top of the page. See Translations for sources and copyright notices.
2. Each reference links to the full chapter so the verse can be read in context.