Bible Verses about โultimate sacrificeโ
The Bible contains 20 verses about ultimate sacrifice across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ
โGreater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.โ
โBut God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.โ
โI have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.โ
โwho his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.โ
โWalk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.โ
โBecause Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;โ
โBut he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.โ
โAnd being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.โ
โFor the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."โ
โIn this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.โ
โBy this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.โ
โFor him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.โ
โeven as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."โ
โso Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.โ
โwhom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;โ
โby which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.โ
โor else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.โ
โbut he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;โ
โwho gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father--โ
