Bible Verses About The Atonement: Reconciliation to God effected by

And it is all from God, who through the Messiah has reconciled us to himself and has given us the work of that reconciliation,

which is that God in the Messiah was reconciling mankind to himself, not counting their sins against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Therefore we are ambassadors of the Messiah; in effect, God is making his appeal through us. What we do is appeal on behalf of the Messiah, “Be reconciled to God!

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.

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 —