By the Blood of Christ not by Our Own Works!

Something that is hard for many believers to grasp is that the blood of Christ covers our sin, our sin was paid for by His blood. If He had not paid for our sin with His blood then we would have had to die, but we couldn't because we are not sinless. Only the blood of a perfect sinless lamb could cover the sin in mankind.

We are not sinless, but His blood shed on our behalf covers the sin of those who trust Christ.


After our sin has been covered by the blood of Christ, He begins to work His character in us. The cleansing that grows us is essential to the Christian walk. It goes to our testimony and our rewards in heaven.

If there is no change in someone after they became born again, then they have attempted to come to Christ on their own feeble merits, which is a form of blasphemy. Thinking that we can do good enough without the shedding of Christ's blood is the worst form of arrogance.

Man's blood is not worthy to cover their own sin, it must be the shed blood of the Perfect Lamb of God.

Hebrews 9:22 "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."

Matthew 26:28 "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

Ephesians 1:7 ""...we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace""

1 Peter 1:18-19."Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold... But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:"

Rom. 5:9 "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."

Rev. 1:5 "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood."

Ephesians. 2:13 "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ"

Hebrews 13:12 ""Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate"

Colossians 1:20 " "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself"

1 John 1:7 ""If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin"

Hebrews 9:14 ""how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

1 Corinthians 6:9-20 ""Ye are not your own? for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's"