When I truly repent and humble myself before God, I know He is faithful and just to forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. It's through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross that I can receive this forgiveness. It's such a gift.
And you know, it makes me think about how God wants me to extend that same grace to others. He wants me to reflect His love to everyone around me, to be a reflection of Jesus in every moment. It's a challenge sometimes, but it's so important.
Forgiving others, I've found, is really about freeing myself. It's about healing those deep wounds and finding freedom from bitterness. It's not easy, but it's so worth it.
I want to practice gratitude and turn away from sin, coming to God with a repentant heart, knowing He will always forgive me. And hopefully, I can pay that forward and offer forgiveness just as freely as I've received it.
For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you.But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults.
And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.
For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you.
In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;
And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.
And judge not, and ye should not be judged: condemn not, and ye should not be condemned: loose ye, and ye shall be loosed.
And when ye stand praying, let go, if ye have any thing against any one : that also your Father, he in the heavens, might let go to you your falls.
(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)
Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that for him remission of sins is announced to you.
For this I say to you, All sin and blasphemy shall be let go to men; but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be let go to men.
And every one who shall say a word against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him: and to him blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be remitted.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:
For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their injustices will I remember no more.
And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him.
Therefore truly, God having overlooked the times of ignorance, now announces to all men everywhere to repent:
Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord;
Then Peter, having come to him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I let him go? Till seven times?And Jesus says to him, I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven.
Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.
Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered.A happy man to whom the Lord should not reckon sin.
And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us.Much more then, justified now in his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice.
And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ;That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.
Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head.
To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions.Multiply to wash me from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go.And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go.
Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.
He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.
For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.
Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.
Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise.
If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?For with thee, forgiveness; so that thou shalt be feared.
I, I am he wiping away thy transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Having risen, I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,And I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired.And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.
He covering his transgression shall not prosper: but he confessing and forsaking, shall be compassionated.
And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him.And the son said to him, Father, I sinned against heaven, and before thee, and I am no more worthy to be called thy son.And the father said to his servants, Bring out the first robe, and clothe him; and give a ring for his hand, and shoes for the feet:And having brought the fatted calf, sacrifice, and eating, let us be gladdened.For this my son was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found. And they began to be gladdened.
Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head.Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
To David, wisdom. Happy the taking away of transgression, the covering of sin.Happy the man Jehovah will not reckon sin to him, and no deceit in his spirit
The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them: whose soever ye retain, they have been retained.
The understanding of man will defer his anger: and his glory to pass over transgression.
And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross
Judge not, that ye be not judged.For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you.
For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:
And, behold, they brought him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Take courage, child thy sins are let go to thee.
It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil;