What does the bible say about Jesus being crucified on the cross and dying for sin?
Both the old and New Testament has a lot to say of course.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 150 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 122 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
John 3:16 ESV / 121 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 96 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 53 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
1 Peter 2:24-25 ESV / 51 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 50 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 34 helpful votes
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 1:29 ESV / 29 helpful votes
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Colossians 2:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes
By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
Hebrews 5:7-8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
John 19:30 ESV / 23 helpful votes
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. ...
Galatians 3:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
John 14:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
1 John 2:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
John 15:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Philippians 3:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Matthew 10:38 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
John 19:36-37 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Colossians 1:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
Luke 23:46 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
Genesis 2:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 12 helpful votes
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...
John 3:1-36 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
Luke 23:1-56 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.” And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.” But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.” ...
Mark 10:45 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Leviticus 17:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Ephesians 2:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Romans 6:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 3:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
John 19:1-42 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” ...
John 3:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Luke 14:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Mark 15:1-47 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” And the chief priests accused him of many things. And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. ...
Isaiah 53:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Hebrews 10:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
Hebrews 9:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
Revelation 21:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Romans 8:33-34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
John 3:15-16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
That whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 1:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Matthew 20:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...
1 John 4:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 Peter 2:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
1 Peter 1:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Hebrews 10:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Ephesians 2:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
Galatians 2:19-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 1:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
Romans 8:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
Romans 5:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Romans 5:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 3:21-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
John 5:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 3:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isaiah 53:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 53:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53:5-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
1 John 1:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—
Hebrews 9:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.
1 Timothy 2:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Galatians 3:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ...
1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Romans 8:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Romans 5:6-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 4:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Romans 3:24-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Acts 5:29-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
John 3:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”
Mark 15:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.
Genesis 22:1-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” ...
Revelation 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.
1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Luke 24:25-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther, but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. ...
Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Genesis 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”