1 Peter 2:24-25

Submission to Authority

²⁴ _e He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we _f might die to sin and _g live to righteousness. _h By his wounds you have been healed. ²⁵ For _i you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to _j the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

1. Cross References
   Isaiah 53:4
   Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
   Isaiah 53:11
   Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
   Matthew 8:17
   This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.
   Hebrews 9:28
   So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 6:2
   By no means! How can we who died to sin still l...
   Romans 6:11
   So you also must consider yourselves dead to si...
   Romans 7:4
   Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to th...
   Romans 7:6
   But now we are released from the law, having di...
   Colossians 2:20
   If with Christ you died to the elemental spirit...
   Colossians 3:3
   For you have died, and your life is hidden with...
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 6:13
   Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 53:5
   But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
   
5. Cross References
   Isaiah 53:6
   All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned - every one - to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
   Psalms 119:176
   I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.
   Ezekiel 34:6
   My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.
   Luke 15:4
   What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
   
6. Cross References
   John 10:11
   I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.