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Bible Verses About Atonement
Find Bible verses about atonement — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about atonement?
The Bible addresses atonement with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Leviticus 17:11
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.”
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Leviticus 16:30
“for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.”
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Leviticus 23:28
“You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.”
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Leviticus 6:7
“The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty."”
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Leviticus 25:9
“Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.”
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Leviticus 23:27
“"However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh...”
Proverbs 14:9
“Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.”
Leviticus 1:4
“He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.”
2 Samuel 21:3
“and David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?"”
Numbers 6:11
“The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.”
Leviticus 14:19
“"The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;”
Leviticus 5:10
“He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.”
Leviticus 7:7
“"'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.”
Isaiah 53:5
“But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.”
1 John 2:2
“And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”
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