- For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disharmony and every type of wickedness.
- We have sinned and done what is wrong, we have acted wickedly and rebelled, we have rejected your commandments and your laws.
- Righteousness is a sign of a nation’s greatness,
but sin degrades any people. - Wash yourselves and become clean;
remove your evil deeds
far from my sight.
Cease to do evil. - Hence, I advise you to be guided by the Spirit, so that you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- But according to Scripture all things have been confined under sin, so that through faith in Jesus Christ what was promised might be given to those who believe.
- For sin is no longer to have any power over you, since you are not under the Law but under grace.
- But he was pierced for our offenses
and crushed for our iniquity;
the punishment that made us whole fell upon him,
and by his bruises we have been healed. - I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
- The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright,
but destruction for evildoers. - However, if the wicked renounce all of the sins that they have committed and keep all my statutes and do what is right and just, they shall surely live; they shall not die.
- This is the message
that we have heard from him
and that we declare to you:
God is light,
and there is no darkness at all in him. - Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I made no attempt to conceal my guilt.
I said, “I will confess my offenses to the Lord,”
and you removed the guilt of my sin. Selah - Whoever observes the commandments will live,
but the one who scorns them will die. - Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you should arm yourselves also with the same intention. For anyone who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin.
- Nor should you present any part of your body as an instrument for wickedness leading to sin. Rather, present yourselves to God as having been raised from death to life and the parts of your body to God as instruments for righteousness.
- I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like a mist.
Return to me,
for I have redeemed you. - You want something that you cannot have, so you commit murder. And you covet something but cannot obtain it, so you engage in quarrels and fights. You do not have because you do not ask.
- In other words, God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, and not holding people’s transgressions against them, and he committed to us the message of reconciliation.
- This is what love is:
not that we have loved God,
but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. - As long as I remained silent,
my body wasted away
as the result of my groaning throughout the day. - Their eyes were opened and they realized that they were naked. They took fig leaves and sewed them together, making themselves a covering.
- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that weighs us down and the sins that so easily distract us and with perseverance run the race that lies ahead of us.
- As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us. - What god can compare with you,
the God who takes away guilt
and forgives the transgressions
of the remnant of your people?
You will not allow your anger to fester forever,
for your delight is in bestowing mercy.
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