Isaiah 53:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
“He was pierced for our transgressions … by his wounds we are healed” describes a suffering servant who bears others’ sin in their place. Christians read it as a striking prophecy of Jesus’ death for us.
Read the full meaning“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace <FI>is<Fi> on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 53:5 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
- Isaiah 53:6We 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.
- Isaiah 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,against the man who is My Companion,declares the LORD of Hosts.Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
- Matthew 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Romans 3:24and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
- Romans 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- Romans 5:15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
- 1 Corinthians 15:3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
- 2 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- Hebrews 9:12He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- Hebrews 9:28so 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.
- Hebrews 10:10And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Hebrews 10:14because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
- 1 Peter 2:24He 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.”
- 1 Peter 3:18For 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,
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