In God's plan of salvation, Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross serves as the means by which His wrath against sin is satisfied. According to 1 John 2:2 and 1 John 4:10, Jesus is the propitiation for our sins, demonstrating God's love for humanity. As Romans 3:25 and Hebrews 2:17 explain, Christ's death was a merciful act that reconciles believers to a holy God. Through this sacrifice, as seen in John 3:16, God's justice and love are perfectly balanced, allowing believers to receive forgiveness and eternal life.
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He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’