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…explanation of why he came. These verses teach you to speak of it in Scripture's own language of substitution, peace and finished work. Isaiah 53:5 Seven centuries before Calvary, Isaiah writes that he was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, that the punishment that…
Bible Memory verse
…both read these words as speaking of Jesus. It is the Old Testament's plainest description of substitution, and it shows the cross was planned rather than improvised. 1 Peter 2:24 Acts 8:32-35 2 Corinthians 5:21 Romans 4:25 Lord, the punishment that brought me peace fell on you. I receive that…
Reading plan day
…in our place. Isaiah 53:5 Bring one specific sin to the cross by name. Substitution
Chapter study
…in the stead of his son, and the Bible has its first clear picture of substitution. Only then does he name the place, and the name looks forward rather than back: in the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. At what point…
Chapter study
…legal standing is settled in the present tense, grounded in Christ's substitution rather than in progress (verses 1 to 4, 33 and 34). Union with Christ In Christ Jesus is the location of every blessing in the chapter.…
Dig Deeper
…to the temple, he was standing on the mountain where the principle of substitution was first shown to Abraham. Abraham's own name for the place says the same thing in the language of sight. God saw, God provided, and it…
Reading plan
…now announces the coming of comfort and restoration. Isaiah 53:1-6 Substitution Isaiah describes a suffering servant, despised and rejected, wounded for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, so that we…
Verse study
…the worshipper's place. Isaiah 53:5 Wounded for our transgressions, the substitution stated as prophecy. Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, the deliberate echo of Genesis 22:12 and 16. 1 Peter 3:18 Christ also…
Devotional
…The passage attributes both the wounding and the reason for it to a substitution, his suffering for their transgression. This is where the week's theme of justice reaches its sharpest point. God's justice is not set…
Devotional
…the temple would later stand. The text does not say Abraham understood substitution theologically, but it does record him naming the place The LORD Will Provide, and a ram taking Isaac's place on the altar. Paul's…
Devotional
…not his own guilt: our transgressions, our iniquities. The suffering is substitutionary, borne by one for the sake of others named in the same sentence. The outcome named is peace and healing, and both are attributed to…
Devotional
…servant, but we. The pronouns shift from he to we and back, describing substitution in the plainest language the Old Testament offers. Written centuries before crucifixion existed as a Roman practice, the chapter…
Devotional
…titles from this psalm that answers it directly. Jesus makes the same substitution David does, in Luke 12:4-5, redirecting His disciples from lesser fears to reverent fear of God alone. The confidence David voices…
Daily reading
…to say it. The ram is provided, not the son spared by accident. The substitution is the point. The Faith resource traces obedience before evidence across Scripture, which is the exact order of this chapter. Abraham does…
Biblical concept
…justify many by bearing their iniquities himself. Justification and substitution belong together in the Bible's own account, one person's righteousness and payment become the ground for another's acquittal. James 2 uses…
Biblical concept
…heaven. Matthew's first readers were largely Jewish, and reverent substitution for the name of God was a settled habit among them. The wording fits the audience rather than marking a different kingdom. Prophets Daniel…
Biblical concept
…This chapter was written centuries before Jesus, and its language of substitution, a righteous one bearing what others deserved, sits directly behind John the Baptist's words at the Jordan. When John points at Jesus and…
Biblical concept
…judgement. The whole logic of the first Passover night, protection by substitution rather than by personal worthiness, is the same logic the New Testament applies to the cross. Israel was spared on the first Passover…
Biblical concept
…Leviticus repeats the verdict: it shall be forgiven him. Because substitution is the only way both of God's commitments hold. He will by no means clear the guilty (Exodus 34:7), and He is merciful and gracious in the…
Biblical concept
…reserved for the despised. Because the curse had to be visible and the substitution public. What was owed was not paid quietly. Colossians 2:14 pictures the record of debt nailed to it, in the open, where the charge…
Bible question
…Abraham, that in him all nations would be blessed. Isaiah 53:5 Christ's substitutionary death is described centuries in advance, down to the wounds and the peace they purchase. Luke 24:27 The risen Jesus opens Moses and…
Bible question
…our transgressions, and the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all. Substitution is not a later theory, it is the text. Romans 3:23-26 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by…
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