Bible Verses About The Atonement

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Direct atonement passage from Romans 5:11

Whom 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;

Direct Bible verse behind the patristic phrasing

In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Redemption through his blood

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.

Peace and reconciliation by the blood of the cross

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Direct Bible lamb image behind the early Christian wording

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.

Hebrews text often used in atonement teaching

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Redemption through his blood

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Blood of the covenant for forgiveness of sins

For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Christ put away sin by sacrifice of himself

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Blood of Christ purifies conscience

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Direct Bible verse about Christ as propitiation

Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

Atonement language in legal/cultic setting

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Single sacrifice for sins once for all

By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Offering of Christ’s body once for all

And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.

Priestly atonement in Leviticus

And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

Sanctuary atonement in the law

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

Without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Justified by his blood and saved from wrath

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Reconcile us to God through the cross

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

God reconciling the world in Christ

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Direct Bible Passover verse used by early writers

And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:

Congregational atonement through offering

And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

Trespass offering and forgiveness

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.

Offered once to bear the sins of many

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Sanctify the people with his own blood

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Once-offering of himself

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Ministry of reconciliation

And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

Old Testament atonement background

And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

Atonement because of transgressions

And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.

Priestly atonement before the Lord

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Reconciled in his body by his death

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:

Suffered once for sins to bring us to God

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.

Bore our sins in his body on the tree