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Key Verse: 1 John 2:2 · NASB1995
Key Verse
“and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.”
1 John 2:2Propitiation is an unfamiliar word today, but it names something believers depend on every day: God’s own justice has been fully satisfied, not overlooked, so that He can be both “just, and the justifier” of everyone who trusts Christ.
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“being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
Romans 3:24-26 · NASB1995Propitiation means a debt against God’s own justice has been fully paid and His wrath turned aside — not by God lowering His standard, but by Christ absorbing what the standard required. John says Christ “is the propitiation for our sins,” extending even to “the whole world” in its sufficiency (1 John 2:2). Paul’s longer explanation in Romans 3:24-26 shows why this mattered: God had, in His forbearance, “passed over the sins previously committed,” and at the cross He finally “demonstrated His righteousness” so that He could be “just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” Nothing was swept under the rug; everything was paid for.
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Read 1 John 2 · NASB95 on Blue Letter BibleAdapted from “The Riches of Grace in Christ Jesus” by Lewis Sperry Chafer, from Salvation (Sunday School Times Company, 1917, public domain).
Scripture quotations are from the NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible, 1995 update), © The Lockman Foundation.