"Christ died for our sins."--1 Cor. 15:3.
"Our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins."--Gal. 1:3, 4.
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree."--1 Peter 2:24.
"Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous."--1 Peter 3:18.
"Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many."--Matt. 20:28.
"There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all."--1 Tim. 2:5, 6.
"Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us."--Gal. 3:13.
"Our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity."--Titus 2:13, 14.
"By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."--Heb. 10:10.
"For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified."--Heb. 10:14.
"Nor yet by the blood of goats and bulls, but through his own blood entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption."--Heb. 9:12.
"This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many unto the remission of sins."--Matt. 26:28.
"And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe and tongue and people and nation."--Rev. 5:9.
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."--1 John 4:10.
"The Son of God who loved me, and gave himself up for me."--Gal. 2:20.
Reader, God's justice and love are both shown in the Saviour dying for our sins. Substitution is the _only way_ of salvation when justice and love are both considered. It was God's justice that made it necessary for Christ to die for our sins. "Even so _must_ the Son of man be lifted up,"--John 3:14;--"that he might himself be _just_ and the _justifier_ of him that hath faith in Jesus."--Rom. 3:26. And it was God's love that let Him die for our sins, "for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son."--John 3:16. What you, reader, ought to desire to know, is simply God's way. The Scriptures at the beginning of the chapter, if language can make anything plain, show clearly that the sinner's only escape from the just punishment of his sins lies in Jesus dying in his place to set him free from the just penalty due his sins; and they make it plain that this settles the _full_ penalty for _all sins_.