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32 "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. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isa. liii. 5, 6.

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

"Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification." Rom. iv. 25.

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all." Rom. viii. 32.

"He hath made him to be sin [a sin offering] for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." 2 Cor. v. 21.

"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." Heb. ii. 9.

"God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For 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. And not only so, but we also joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." Rom. v. 8—11.

"Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,&mdash;but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." 1 Pet. i. 18—21.

"He hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sin." Eph. i. 6, 7.