Bible Verses Related to the Passion of
Jesus Christ
The Passion of Christ is the suffering that
Christ endured from the time of the Last Supper
to his crucifixion and death. The Bible verses below explain why Jesus
Christ came to
suffer and die for our sins.
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Why would God send be willing to send His only
son, Jesus, to come to earth to suffer and die
for us? Because of God's unending love
for us. |
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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John 3:16
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died
for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for
a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own
love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Romans 5: 6-8
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
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1 John 3:16
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
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Psalm 51: 1-4
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into
the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved
God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our
sins.
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1 John 4:9-10
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The nature of the sacrifice that Jesus
would make for us was described in detail many years before Jesus was even
born by the prophet Isaiah (around 700 B.C.) |
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he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
- Isaiah 53:5-7
Yet it was the LORD’S will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
- Isaiah 53:10
Because he poured out his life
unto death
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many
and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Isaiah
53:12
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Jesus
himself knew what He would endure in advance, and He willingly accepted
the suffering on our behalf. |
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He [Jesus] took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to
him.
“We are going up to Jerusalem,” he said, “and the Son of Man
will be
betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the law. They will
condemn him
to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will
mock him and spit
on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he
will rise."
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Mark 10: 32-34
And he [Jesus] said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the
elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on
the third day be raised to life.”
Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny
himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save
his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.
- Luke
9:22-24
Then he [Jesus] took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, “Drink
from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out
for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not drink of this
fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you
in my Father’s kingdom.
- Matthew 26:27-29
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—
just as the
Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my
life for the sheep.
I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I
must bring them also.
They too will listen to my voice, and there shall
be one flock and one
shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I
lay down my life—only to
take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I
lay it down of my own
accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again.
This command I received from my Father.”
- John 10: 14-18
Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would
be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there,
so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop
plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus
said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
- John
19:28-30
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Why did
Jesus have to suffer and die for us?
Because of our sin. Through believing in Jesus and making Jesus lord
of our lives, our sins are forgiven. |
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"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and
to
give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Mark 10: 45
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!
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Philippians 2: 5-8
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful
nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a
sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man.
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Romans 8: 3
But when this priest [Jesus] had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat
down at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to
be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever
those who are being made holy.
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Hebrews 10: 11-14
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but
to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that,
whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore
encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are
doing.
- 1
Thessalonians 5: 9-11
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its
proper time.
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1 Timothy 2:5-6
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near
through the blood of Christ.
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Ephesians 2:13
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When we accept Jesus as our Savior, we are healed, and we can look forward to
eternal life with Him. |
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 6:23
But how is it to your credit if you receive a
beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and
you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called,
because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should
follow in his steps.
“He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he
suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who
judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we
might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been
healed.
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1 Peter 2:20-24
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The gift of Salvation through Jesus Christ is free. In fact, there
is nothing we can do to earn Salvation. |
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Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for
the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down
at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such
opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
- Hebrews
12:2-3
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
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Ephesians 2:8-9
May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through
which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world . . . Finally,
let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
- Galatians
6:14,17
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