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NASB | 1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 2:24 He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been healed. |
Subject: did Jesus die for our sins or sickness |
Bible Note: I have come to this conclusions: (1) personally, through the experience of God’s character in my life; (2) Biblically, through my own studies of the Bible. (3) Through books, like the ones I suggested. I can briefly give what I believe warrants my position, although it is more an observation from a common sense approach rather than a careful, technical study and scholarly research. When I read Isaiah 53 in the Tanakh, from which the apostle Peter quotes, I notice there are references to physical sickness and healing. For example, v.3b: “A man of suffering, familiar with disease”; or, v.4a: Yet it was our sickness that he was bearing.” It seems Isaiah’s quote was understood as having reference to both the spiritual (including emotional and mental) and the physical, that is, the whole man. Notice, v.5: “He bore the chastisement that made us whole; And by His bruises we were healed.” The last part, to me, is like saying, “And by his physical bruises are our physical bruises healed.” Also the words “whole” and “healed” seem, from the context, to be unqualified and not limited in scope to its meaning, and therefore, comprehensive. This is my uneducated conviction. |