The Lamb of God

Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 1 Christ has appeared at the end of the age to remove sin by his own death as a sacrifice. 2

He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. 3 He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. 4

God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. 5 He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. The LORD laid on him the sins of us all. 6

For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time. 7 We have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, 8 the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. 9 For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. 10

Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. 11 Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered – to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing. 12

 

1 Jn 1.29 2 Heb 9.26 3 Isa 53.7 4 Eph 5.2 5 2Cor 5.21 6 Isa 53.5-6 7 Heb 10.10 8 Rom 5.9 9 1Pet 1.19 10 Heb 9.22 11 1Cor 5.7 12 Rev 5.12