Jesus' bodily death and shed blood is the price He paid for sins, which price is in His hands and resurrected body.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
No man receives that price paid, until receiving it from His own hands by repenting of sinning and receiving Him with power to do His righteousness.
The price has been paid in His flesh, but receiving that payment costs us our own life as well: the crucifixion of our old sinning soul on our own cross.
Forgiveness of sins is not free of charge, neither for Christ nor ourselves: He bought us forgiveness of sins past, we buy that forgiveness with repentance from sinning.
Before and after Christ, the soul still sinning is still dead.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
No man receives that price paid, until receiving it from His own hands by repenting of sinning and receiving Him with power to do His righteousness.
The price has been paid in His flesh, but receiving that payment costs us our own life as well: the crucifixion of our old sinning soul on our own cross.
Forgiveness of sins is not free of charge, neither for Christ nor ourselves: He bought us forgiveness of sins past, we buy that forgiveness with repentance from sinning.
Before and after Christ, the soul still sinning is still dead.