Through Christ's blood, you are justified. There's no condemnation for you when you come to God with a repentant heart. Believe that when you ask Jesus for forgiveness, you receive His mercy, and your soul is freed from the final punishment meant for those who don't turn away from their wrongdoings.
It's important to remember that the devil will constantly try to bring up your past to keep you from moving forward. He'll bring back thoughts of things God has already forgiven, just to make you feel guilty.
Nothing you do earns God's love. He's so good that His love isn't based on your actions. He loved you before the creation of the world and sent His Son to die for you, pulling you out of darkness through His blood and establishing a relationship with you.
So, whenever Satan tries to intimidate you and pull you away from God's presence, stand firm. Declare that through Jesus' sacrifice, you are justified before the Father. The sin that's been haunting you is removed, making you righteous. The shame that tormented you is forgotten, and you are repositioned with Christ in heavenly places.
Romans 5:1 reminds us that, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,not of works, lest anyone should boast.
even the righteousness of God, through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;
Therefore the law has become our custodian, leading us to Christ, so that we might be justified by faith.
and from all things from which you could not (by the Law of Moses) be justified, by Him everyone that believes is justified.
But the just shall live by faith, and if he withdraws, My soul has no pleasure in him."
But to him who does not work but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
But that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for "The just shall live by faith."
and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
You have become estranged from Christ, you who are justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
but for us also, to whom it was going to be imputed, those believing on Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,who was delivered up for our transgressions, and was raised for our justification.
knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law; because no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law.
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.
And such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, in order that having died to sins, we might live unto righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.
But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciledin the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach before Him--
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for it is necessary for the one approaching God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Much more then, having been justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
for He that has justified me draws near. Who is he that pleads with me? Let him stand up against me at the same time; yea, who is he that pleads with me? Let him draw near to me.Behold, the Lord, the Lord will help me; who will hurt me? Behold, all you shall grow as old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.
I will not allow any weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgment, you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be condemned thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and you shall be righteous before Me, says the Lord.
And enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight shall no man living be justified.
the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form Him with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.
that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
A Psalm of instruction by David. Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and who sins are covered.Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and in whose mouth there is no guile.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,and having a High Priest over the house of God,let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies having been washed with clean water.
having been persuaded of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus;
And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,having blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross.
For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
who having saved us, and having called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time itself,
Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing."
But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the offense of one man many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to the many.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, all things have become new.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.For what was impossible for the law to do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith;
Stand fast therefore in the freedom in which Christ has made us free, and do not be loaded down again with a yoke of bondage.
My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if someone should sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
I acknowledged my sin, and hid not my iniquity; I said, I will confess my iniquity to the Lord; and You forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Pause.
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach before Him--
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
For the end, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, when he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your great mercy; and according to the multitude of Your compassions, blot out my transgression.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets,even the righteousness of God, through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,into an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,who by the power of God are being guarded through faith for the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people as His own possession, zealous for good works.
Then Phinehas stood up and made atonement, and the plague ceased.And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations forever.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But the Scripture has confined all under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your intelligent service.And do not fashion yourselves after this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.
But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord; and He is their defender in the time of affliction.And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them; and He shall rescue them from sinners, and save them, because they have hoped in Him.
For all the promises of God in Him are "Yes," and in Him "Amen," to the glory of God through us.
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.
just as David also speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works:"Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins were covered over;Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall by no means impute sin."
by how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order that we might serve the living God?
He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
The Lord will redeem the souls of His servants; and none of those that hope in Him shall go wrong.
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him, and has graciously given Him a name which is above every name,that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,and that every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
through which have been given to us precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through these we may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
But I make known to you, brothers, the gospel preached by me is not according to man.For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
for a demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of he who is of the faith of Jesus.
For the Lord loves judgment, and will not forsake His saints; they shall be preserved forever; the blameless shall be avenged, but the seed of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.
"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.
because everything having been born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that has overcome the world--your faith.Who is he that overcomes the world, if not he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled the stone of stumbling.Just as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, and everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame."
Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and secure, and which enters into the inner side of the veil,where the Forerunner has entered in behalf of us, even Jesus, having become a High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.And not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;and endurance, character; and character, hope.And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
For You, O Lord, shall bless the righteous: You have compassed us as with a shield of favor.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,being justified freely by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins having previously occurred, in the forbearance of God,for a demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of he who is of the faith of Jesus.
Now to him who works, the reward is not accounted according to grace but according to debt.But to him who does not work but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies.Who is he that condemns? Christ is the One having died, but rather also having been raised, who is even at the right hand of God, who also intercedes on our behalf.
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.