But if we confess our sins, he is trustworthy and right so that he can forgive us our sins and make us clean from all that is not right in us.
Now repent, and change your ways, that your sins can be wiped away, so the Lord can send opportunities for you to heal and recover,
and if my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and return to me, and turn away from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their land.
God, please be gracious to me, because of your trustworthy love, because of your infinite kindness please wipe away my sins. Create a pure mind in me, God, and make me trustworthy again.Don't expel me from your presence; don't take away your Holy Spirit from me.Give me back the happiness of your salvation; help me to have a willing nature.Then I will teach your ways to rebellious people, and these sinners will come back to you.God, please forgive me for the blood I have shed, God of my salvation, and I will sing for joy of your goodness.Lord, open my lips so I can speak your praise!For sacrifices don't make you happy, or I would bring one; burnt offerings aren't what pleases you.The “sacrifices” that God wants are on the inside—the brokenness of repentance. God won't reject a broken and sorrowful heart.Be kind to Zion, help the city; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.Then you will be pleased with sacrifices given in the right spirit, for all kinds of burnt offerings, and bulls sacrificed on your altar once more.Wash away all my guilt; cleanse me from my sin.
Wicked people should change their ways and get rid of even the thought of doing something wrong. They should turn to the Lord so he can be merciful to them. Come back to our God, because he's generous with his forgiveness.
Or is it that you're treating his wonderful kindness, tolerance, and patience with contempt, not realizing that God in his kindness is trying to lead you to repent?
“Repent!” Peter told them. “All of you must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
People who hide their sins won't succeed, but those who confess and renounce their sins will be shown kindness.
I tell you that there's more joy in heaven over a sinner that repents than over ninety-nine good people who don't need to repent.
Come on, let's argue this out, says the Lord. Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will become white like snow. Even though they are red like crimson, they will become like wool.
Then I confessed my sins to you. I did not hide the wrongs I had done. I said to myself, “I will confess my disobedience to the Lord,” and you forgave the guilt of my sins. Selah.
From that time on Jesus began declaring his message, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has arrived!”
However, if someone who is wicked stops sinning and keeps my laws, doing what is fair and right, they will certainly live—they won't die.None of their sins will be held against them. Because they are now doing what's right, they will live.Do I like it when wicked people die? declares the Lord God. Of course not—I would be delighted if they stopped sinning and lived!
The Lord is not delaying the fulfillment of his promise, as some define delay, but he is being very patient with you. He doesn't want anyone to be lost, but everyone to come and repent.
“Yet even now,” says the Lord, “Come back to me while there is still time. Come to me with all your heart, with fasting and prayer.Repent in your minds, and not by tearing your clothes.” Come back to the Lord your God for he is gracious and kind. He is slow to get angry and full of faithful love, and changes his mind about sending punishment.
Go and discover what this means: ‘I want mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I didn't come to call those who do what's right—I came to call sinners.”
This is what the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, said, If you repent and patiently trust in me, you would be saved; you would be strong if you had such calm confidence. But you refused to do it.
Just admit you did wrong, that you rebelled against the Lord your God. You spread yourself around, committing adultery by worshiping foreign gods under every green tree, refusing to do what I told you, declares the Lord.
Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties.
I will give you a new mind and I will put a new spirit inside you. I will take away your stubborn mind and I will give you a loving mind.
God disregarded people's ignorance in the past, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent.
repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
I have wiped away your acts of rebellion as if they were like a cloud, your sins as if they were like the mist. Come back to me, for I have set you free.”
Lord, if you kept a list of sins, who could escape being condemned?But you are forgiving so that we might respect you.
When I came back to you I was sorry, and once I understood, I held my head in sadness. I was ashamed and I blushed, embarrassed at what I'd done when I was young.”
The Lord is close beside those who are broken-hearted; he saves those whose spirits are crushed.
My dear children, I'm writing this to you so you shouldn't sin. But if anybody should happen to sin, we have someone who defends us before the Father—Jesus Christ, who is truly good and right.Those who love their fellow Christians live in the light, and don't cause others to sin.Those who hate a fellow Christian are in darkness. They stumble around in the dark, not knowing where they're going because the darkness has blinded them.Dear friends, I'm writing to you children, for your sins have been forgiven through the name of Jesus.I'm writing to you fathers, for you know him who has existed from the beginning. I'm writing to you young people, for you have defeated the evil one.I write to you little children, for you know the Father. I write to you fathers, for you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you young people, for you are strong. The word of God lives in you, and you have defeated the evil one.Don't be in love with the world, and don't long for the things of this world. If you love the world, you won't have the Father's love in you.For all the things of this world—our sinful desires, wanting everything we see, boasting about what we've accomplished in life— these things don't come from the Father but from the world.The world and its evil desires are coming to an end, but those who do the will of God will live forever.Dear friends, this is the last hour. As you've heard, the antichrist is coming. Many antichrists have already come. This is how we know this is the last hour.They left us, but they didn't belong with us, for if they did, they would have remained with us. When they left they showed that none of them belonged with us.Through him our sins are forgiven—and not only our sins, but those of the whole world.
The wage sin pays is death, but God's free gift is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
As far as the east is from the west is how far the Lord has taken our sins away from us.
So this is what the Lord says: If you come back to me, I will take you back and you will serve me again. If what you talk about are worthwhile subjects and not nonsense, you will be my spokesman, Jeremiah. They must be the ones who follow you; you must not follow them.
I'm going home to my father! I'll tell him: Father, I've sinned against heaven and against you.I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Please treat me as one of your hired workers.’
I, yes I am the God who wipes out your sins because of who I am, and who doesn't remember your sins any more.
After they had heard this explanation, they didn't argue with him anymore, and praised God, saying, “Now God has granted the opportunity to repent and have eternal life to foreigners as well.”
“No one did, sir,” she replied. “I don't condemn you either,” Jesus told her. “Go, and don't sin anymore.”
For you, Lord, are good; you are forgiving and full of trustworthy love for all who come to you.
The “sacrifices” that God wants are on the inside—the brokenness of repentance. God won't reject a broken and sorrowful heart.
Through him we gain salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins as a result of his priceless grace
how much more does the blood of Christ—who offered himself in his sinless life to God through the eternal Spirit—clean your consciences from your past sinful lives so you can serve the living God?
“I tell you the truth, unless you change the way you think and become like little children, you won't ever enter the kingdom of heaven,” he told them.
John came, baptizing in the desert, announcing a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
This is what the one who is high above all says, he who lives in eternity, whose name is holy: I live in a high and holy place, together with those who repent and who act humbly, restoring their spirits and encouraging them.
But Zacchaeus stood up and said before the Lord, “Look, I'm giving half of everything I own to the poor, and if I've cheated anybody, I'll pay them back four times as much!”In response Jesus said, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man has shown he is a son of Abraham too.
First in Damascus, then in Jerusalem, and then all over Judea and also to the foreigners I shared the message of repentance: how they should turn to God, demonstrating their repentance through their actions.
But if they think again in their land of captivity and repent and plead for mercy from you, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly,’and they come back to you with complete sincerity in their thoughts and attitudes there in their land of captivity; and they pray towards the land you gave their forefathers, the city you chose, and the Temple I have built to honor you,
The Spirit of the Lord God is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to announce liberation to the captives, to set the prisoners free,
Consequently I'm going to judge you, people of Israel! I will judge each of you depending on what you've done, declares the Lord God. Repent and stop rebelling so that your sins won't bring you down.Get rid of all your rebellious sins! Change your way of thinking and have a new spirit. Why do you want to die, people of Israel?
Who is a God like you who forgives sin and passes over the rebellion of those who are left of his special people? You do not remain angry forever because you delight in showing faithful love.You will have compassion on us again. You will tread our sins under your feet, and you will throw our sins into the depths of the sea.
Please don't remember the sins of my youth when I rebelled against you. Instead, remember me according to your trustworthy love, remember me because of your goodness, Lord.
You can trust this saying that everyone should accept: “Christ Jesus came to this world to save sinners,” and I'm the worst of them.
But the tax collector stood at a distance. He wouldn't even look up to heaven. Instead he beat his chest and prayed, ‘God, please be merciful to me. I am a sinner.’
Come to me, all of you who struggle and who are burdened down. I will give you rest.Accept my yoke, and learn from me. For I am kind and have a humble heart, and in me you will find the rest you need.to ask on his behalf, “Are you the one we were expecting to come, or should we continue to look for someone else?”For my yoke is gentle, and my burden is light.”
I witnessed both to Jews and Greeks that it was essential to repent and turn to God, and to trust in our Lord Jesus Christ.
I admit my rebellion; my sin always stares me in my face.I have sinned against you, you alone. I have done evil in your sight. So you are right in what you say, and fair when you judge.
He took the consequences of our sins on himself in his body on the cross, so that we could die to sin and live rightly. “By his wounds you are healed.”
I have wandered away like a lost sheep, so please come looking for me, for I have not forgotten your commandments.
But he was wounded because of our rebellious acts, he was crushed because of our guilt. He experienced the discipline that brings us peace, and his wounds heal us.
Some of you were once like that, but you have been made clean and holy. You have been made right in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
But God demonstrates his love for us in that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
Put your trust totally in the Lord—don't rely on what you think you know!Remember him in everything you do, and he'll show you the right way.
Examine me carefully, God, so you can be sure of my true feelings. Check me out so you can know what I really think.Please show me if I'm following any kind of idol, and lead me along the path of eternal life.
Don't follow the ways of this world; instead be transformed by the spiritual renewal of your mind so you can demonstrate what God's will really is—good, pleasing, and perfect.
Tell them: As I live, declares the Lord God, it brings me no pleasure when wicked people die. I wish they would stop sinning and live! Stop! Stop sinning! Why should you die, people of Israel?
There is no salvation in anyone else; there is no other name under heaven given to humanity that can possibly save us.”
May the God of peace himself make you completely holy, and may your whole being—body, mind and spirit—be kept blameless for when our Lord Jesus Christ returns.
We have all sinned, and we fall far short of God's glorious ideal.Yet through the free gift of his grace, God makes us right through Christ Jesus who sets us free.
So let's not get stuck on the basic teachings about Christ, but let's progress to a more mature understanding. We don't need to go over again the ideas of repenting from what we used to do, about trusting in God—
For you've been saved by grace through trusting in him—it's not through yourselves, it's the gift of God!This has nothing to do with human effort, so don't be proud of yourselves.
That's why anyone who is in Christ is a new being—what was old is gone, the new has come!
Who's aware of their own mistakes? Don't punish me for these faults I'm unaware of.Don't let your servant commit deliberate sins. Don't let them rule over me. Then I will be without fault, innocent of such rebellion.
Dear friends, since we have these promises, we should wash ourselves clean from all that makes both body and spirit dirty, aiming for complete holiness out of reverence for God.
If I had focused my mind on evil, the Lord would not have listened to me. But God did hear me! He listened to what I had to say in my prayer!Sing about his marvelous reputation; praise him for his goodness!Praise God, who did not disregard my prayer or take his trustworthy love from me.
Jesus replied, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Sin is forgiven through trustworthy love and faithfulness; by honoring the Lord people are saved from evil.
Now that we have been made right by God by trusting in him, we have peace with him through our Lord Jesus Christ.
whenever we think we're in the wrong. God is greater than how we think, and he knows everything.Dear friends, if we're reassured we're not in the wrong, we can have confidence before God.
For I'm experiencing so many problems—I can't even count them! My sins have piled up so high I can't see over them. They're more than the number of hairs on my head! I feel like giving up!
The son said to him, ‘Father, I've sinned against heaven and against you. I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.’
Such a prayer, trusting in God, will heal those who are sick, and the Lord will make them well. If they've committed sins, they will be forgiven.Admit the wrongs you've done to each other, and pray for one another so that you'll be healed. Earnest prayer from those who live right is very effective.
gently correcting opponents. Perhaps God may help them to come to repent and to understand the truth.In this way they may come to their senses and escape the devil's trap. For he has captured them and made them do whatever he wants.
If you're at the altar making an offering, and remember that your brother has something against you,leave your offering on the altar and go and make peace with him first, and afterwards come back and make your offering.
This is love! It's not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and he sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
let us come close to God with sincere minds, totally trusting in him. Our minds have been sprinkled to purify them from our evil way of thinking, and our bodies have been washed clean by pure water.
So get rid of your former lifestyle, that old nature that ruins you through deceptive desires!Let yourselves be remade spiritually and mentally,and put on your new nature that God created so you will be like him, right and holy in the truth.
I made everything; that's how it all came into existence, says the Lord. Those I look favorably on are humble and repentant, and they tremble when I speak.
Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and told him, “Look, now you've been healed. So stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
We can be confident that he will listen to us as long as we ask in accordance with his will.If we know that he hears our requests, we can be sure that we will receive what we've asked him for.
So place yourself under God's direction. Confront the devil, and he will run away from you.
Do your best to live in peace with everybody, and look for holiness—if you don't have this you won't see the Lord.
My friends, I don't consider that I've already won, but this is my one objective: disregarding what is behind me, I strain forward to what is in front of me.I run towards the finish line to win the prize of God's invitation to heaven through Christ Jesus.
For all of us must appear before Christ's seat of judgment. Each of us will receive what we deserve for what we have done in this life, whether it is good or bad.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed to the cross their sinful human nature, together with all their sinful passions and desires.
You won't experience any greater temptation than anyone else, and God is trustworthy. He won't allow you to be tempted more than you can bear, and when you are tempted, he will provide for you a way out so you can stay strong.
But if we are living in the light, as he is in the light, then we share in this friendship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, makes us clean from every sin.
He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you look for him, you will find him; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
Humble yourself before God's powerful hand so that he will lift you up at the appropriate time.Surrender all your worries to him, because he cares for you.
Yes, I baptize you in water to show repentance, but after me is coming one who is greater than I am. I'm not worthy even to remove his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Be kind and compassionate to each other, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.
Then he said, “Jesus, please remember me when you come into your kingdom.”Jesus replied, “I promise you today you will be with me in paradise.”
Lord, you have examined me from the inside out—you know everything about me!even there your hand would lead me, your right hand would support me.If I asked the darkness to hide me, and light to become night around me,Even darkness would not be dark for you, and the night would be bright as day, for darkness is like light to you.You made me from the inside out, shaping me in my mother's womb. I praise you for making me in such an awesome and wonderful way. What you do is incredible—I realize this completely!My growing body was not hidden from you as I was formed in secret, as I was intricately put together “in the depths of the earth.” You saw me as an embryo, and in your book all my days were written down—the days that were made for me before any of them existed.God, your thoughts are so valuable to me! Taken together, they can't be counted! If I tried to count them, they would be more than every grain of sand. Yet when I awake I am still with you. God, if you would only kill the wicked! Murderers, get away from me! You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know what I'm thinking even when I'm a long way away.
But those who trust in the Lord will have their strength renewed. They will fly high with wings like eagles. They will run and not be tired. They will walk and not be worn out.
He is the one all the prophets spoke about, that everyone who trusts in him will receive forgiveness through his name.”
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.Everyone who asks, receives; everyone who seeks, finds; and everyone who knocks has the door opened for them.
“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “Unless you are reborn, you can't experience God's kingdom.”
God made Jesus, who never personally sinned, experience the consequences of sin so that we could have a character that is good and right just as God is good and right.
The Lord is close to all who ask for his help, to all who ask in sincerity.He satisfies the needs of those who follow him. He hears their cries for help and he saves them.
But now this is what the Lord says to Jacob, the one who created you; to Israel, the one who formed you: “Don't be afraid! I have saved you! I have called you by name; you are mine!
Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life.
For God's grace has been revealed, bringing salvation to everyone.It teaches us to reject a godless way of life with the desires of this world. Instead we should live thoughtful, self-controlled lives that are right before God in the present world
So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—that's why she loves so much. But whoever is forgiven little, only loves a little.”
At one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. You are to live as children of light
For this same reason, do everything you can! Add to your trust in God, goodness; add to goodness, knowledge;add to knowledge, self-control; add to self-control, patience; add to patience, reverence;add to reverence, affection for fellow-believers, add to affection for fellow-believers, love.The more you have these qualities, the more they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.For anyone who doesn't have such qualities is short-sighted, or blind. They forget that they've been cleansed from their past sins.
Peter came to Jesus and asked him, “Lord, how many times should I forgive my brother for sinning against me? Seven times?”“No, not seven times. I would say seventy times seven!” Jesus told him.
How wonderful is the goodness you have reserved for those who honor you! In front of everyone you give this goodness to those who come to you for help.
You don't belong to yourself—a price was paid for you! So glorify God in your body!
So take care what you do. If your brother sins, warn him; and if he repents, forgive him.The day when the Son of man appears will be just like that.If you're up on the roof that day don't go down and get your things; and if you're out in the fields don't go back home either.Remember Lot's wife!If you try to hold on to your life you'll lose it; but if you lose your life you'll save it.I tell you, at that time two will be in bed at night; one will be taken and the other left.Two women will be grinding grain, one will be taken; and the other left.”“Where, Lord?” they asked. “Where the carcass is, that's where the vultures gather,” Jesus replied.Even if he sins against you seven times a day, and seven times comes back and tells you, ‘I'm really sorry,’ forgive him.”
I'm absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor devils, neither the present nor the future, nor powers,neither height nor depth, in fact nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“John came to show you the way to live right with God, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him. Later, when you saw what happened, you still didn't repent and believe him.
God exalted him to a position of honor at his right hand as Prince and Savior, as a way to bring repentance to Israel, and for the forgiveness of sins.
But you, Lord, are our Father. We're the clay, you're the potter. You made us all with your own hands.
For that reason, since we are surrounded by such a great crowd of people who gave evidence of their trust in God, let's get rid of everything that holds us back, the seductive sins that trip us up, and let's keep on running the race placed before us.They disciplined us for a short while as they thought appropriate, but God does so for our benefit in order that we can share his holy character.When it happens, all discipline seems painful and not something to be happy about. But later on it produces peace in those who have been trained in this way so that they do what is good and right.So strengthen your feeble hands, and your weak knees!Make straight paths to walk on, so that those who are crippled won't lose their way, but will be healed.Do your best to live in peace with everybody, and look for holiness—if you don't have this you won't see the Lord.Make sure that none of you lack God's grace, in case some cause of bitterness arises to give trouble and end up corrupting many of you.Make sure there's nobody who is sexually immoral, or irreligious, like Esau was. He sold his birthright for a single meal.You remember that even when he wanted to receive the blessing later on he was refused. Even though he really tried, and cried hard, Esau couldn't change what he had done.You haven't arrived at a physical mountain that can be touched, that burned with fire, to a stormy place of black darkness,where the sound of a trumpet and a voice speaking was heard—and those who heard the voice begged never to hear it speak to them again.We should keep on looking to Jesus, the one who begins and completes our trust in God. Because of the joy ahead of him Jesus endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and sat down at the right hand of God's throne.
Similarly the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We don't know how to speak with God, but the Spirit himself intercedes with and through us by groans that can't be put into words.The one who examines the minds of everyone knows the Spirit's motives, because the Spirit pleads God's cause on behalf of the believers.