24/06/2026
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." — 1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)
The cross was not symbolic suffering — it was substitutionary. Christ carried what was never His to carry, so that believers might be freed from what once enslaved them. This verse holds both deliverance from sin's penalty and the call to a new direction of life, both made possible by His wounds alone.