Bible Verses About the Cross

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

“He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.””

“I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”

“having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!”

“Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.”

“I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,”

“and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”

“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.”

“He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.”

“But as for me, 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.”

“When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished.” And bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.”

“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.”

“God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”

“For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”

“When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.”

“I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.”

“My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,”

“so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.”

“And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross.”

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:”

“Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,”

“but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.”

“But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

“But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”

“We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.”

“and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.”

“Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.”

“And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.””

“Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.”

“and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.”

“We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.”

“Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.”

“Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.”

“And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”

“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,”

“Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.”

“He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.”

“For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,”

“He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?”

“so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.”

“And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”

“But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.”

“because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.”

“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,”

“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.”

“Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.”

“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.”

“After they had mocked Him, they removed the robe and put His own clothes back on Him. Then they led Him away to crucify Him.”

“At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?””

“In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!””