By His stripes we were healed !
1 Pet 2:24
24 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.
Listen, by His stripes [meaning his death] we were healed ! If there is any scripture that is an Testimony of the Saving effects of the Death of Christ alone, its this one above !
The word healed iaomai means:
I.to cure, heal
II.to make whole
A.to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one's) salvation
So the word is also synonymous with saved, thats why its stated to mean "to bring about or effects one's salvation"
Jer 17:14
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Now we derive from our text that the healing that took place by His stripes, it effected " our death to sin "
Thats why Peter could say " we being dead to sin "
This includes the fact that sin cannot never be imputed or charged to anyone Christ died for !
They are dead to any condemnation of sin against them !
They are dead to its power as it cannot reign in them !
It[His Death] not only made us dead to sin, but also effected our" living unto righteousness"
In other words, the healing results of Christ's death or stripes is #1 We become dead to sin and #2 Live unto righteousness, which is but another way of saying to live by Faith, or the Righteousness of Faith Rom 1:17
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Rom 4:11,13
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 9:30
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Phil 3:9
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Heb 11:7
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
We Live unto Righteousness when we are living by Faith, believing that Christ before God, is Our Righteousness 1 Cor 1:30
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
This Righteousness is then revealed to us by the Gospel in order to Live by Faith Rom 1:16-17 !
Now John writes of doing Righteousness 1 Jn 3:7
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
That means living by Faith feeding upon the Righteousness of Christ imputed to our charge. So doing and Living righteous is being able by the Spirit of God, to rest in Christ as our One and Only Righteousness before God,
And that rest will come as a result of Christ's stripes healing us ! 38