Bible Verses About Atonement

so that he might redeem those in subjection to this legalism and thus enable us to be made God’s sons.

But now, you who were once far off have been brought near through the shedding of the Messiah’s blood.

For he himself is our shalom — he has made us both one and has broken down the m’chitzah which divided us

by destroying in his own body the enmity occasioned by the Torah, with its commands set forth in the form of ordinances. He did this in order to create in union with himself from the two groups a single new humanity and thus make shalom,

and in order to reconcile to God both in a single body by being executed on a stake as a criminal and thus in himself killing that enmity.

Also, when he came, he announced as Good News shalom to you far off and shalom to those nearby,

news that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

For it pleased God to have his full being live in his Son

and through his Son to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace through him, through having his Son shed his blood by being executed on a stake.

In other words, you, who at one time were separated from God and had a hostile attitude towards him because of your wicked deeds,

he has now reconciled in the Son’s physical body through his death; in order to present you holy and without defect or reproach before himself —

For God has not intended that we should experience his fury, but that we should gain deliverance through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah,

who died on our behalf so that whether we are alive or dead, we may live along with him.

For God is one; and there is but one Mediator between God and humanity, Yeshua the Messiah, himself human,

who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all, thus providing testimony to God’s purpose at just the right time.

he entered the Holiest Place once and for all. And he entered not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus setting people free forever.

For if sprinkling ceremonially unclean persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer restores their outward purity;

then how much more the blood of the Messiah, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living God!

It is because of this death that he is mediator of a new covenant [or will]. Because a death has occurred which sets people free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.

Further, he did not enter heaven to offer himself over and over again, like the cohen hagadol who enters the Holiest Place year after year with blood that is not his own;

for then he would have had to suffer death many times — from the founding of the universe on. But as it is, he has appeared once at the end of the ages in order to do away with sin through the sacrifice of himself.

For the Torah has in it a shadow of the good things to come, but not the actual manifestation of the originals. Therefore, it can never, by means of the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, bring to the goal those who approach the Holy Place to offer them.

Otherwise, wouldn’t the offering of those sacrifices have ceased? For if the people performing the service had been cleansed once and for all, they would no longer have sins on their conscience.

No, it is quite the contrary — in these sacrifices is a reminder of sins, year after year.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.