1 PETER 2:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 3
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed — the explicit statement of substitutionary atonement ('he bore our sins in his body on the tree') connects Christ's death to believers' liberation from sin. The citation from Isaiah 53:5 ('by his wounds you have been healed') applies the Suffering Servant passage to spiritual healing. The result is a double transaction: death to sin (apothnēskō tē hamartia) and life to righteousness (zao te dikaiosynē).
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