100 Bible Verses About Atonement
Bible verses about Atonement
To truly approach the profound mystery of Atonement, one must diligently consult the sacred texts that bear witness to its divine reality. Within these inspired verses lies not just historical account, but the very revelation of God's redemptive design for humanity. Understanding this central act, this ultimate reconciliation, is essential for apprehending the breadth of divine love and the depth of grace offered to us. Let scripture guide your contemplation, for it illuminates the path of salvation made possible through this perfect sacrifice. In these passages, the heart of our hope is unveiled.
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Isaiah 43:4 (KJV)
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Study Atonement: Key Bible Verses
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.
And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the Lord.
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls.
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering.
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord: it is a sin offering.
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, even before the vail.
And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord: it is a sin offering.
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.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.
And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
But 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.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
These scriptural testimonies reveal the profound mystery of atonement, the divine act by which God, in Christ, reconciled the world unto Himself. They speak not merely of a transaction, but of a cosmic reordering, a bridge built across an abyss of sin and separation. The cross stands as the ultimate testament to divine love and justice met, a sacrifice necessary for our redemption and restoration. To behold these truths is to be invited into a life transformed, one where our debt is paid and our path to communion with the Almighty is cleared. Let us not merely read these verses but meditate deeply upon them, allowing the light of Christ's atoning work to illuminate our understanding and reshape our very existence, drawing us ever closer to the source of all grace and wisdom.