- Come to your senses and sin no more. For some of you have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- I treasure your word in my heart
for fear that I may sin against you. - Righteousness is a sign of a nation’s greatness,
but sin degrades any people. - For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disharmony and every type of wickedness.
- Come now and let us discuss this,
says the Lord.
Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be like snow.
Though they are as red as crimson,
they shall become as white as wool. - 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.
- Wash yourselves and become clean;
remove your evil deeds
far from my sight.
Cease to do evil. - 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 - 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.
- The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright,
but destruction for evildoers. - 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. - 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.
- 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.
- I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like a mist.
Return to me,
for I have redeemed you. - 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.
- Their eyes were opened and they realized that they were naked. They took fig leaves and sewed them together, making themselves a covering.
- 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.
- 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. - As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us. - 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.
- It is better to spend one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in God’s house
than dwell inside the tents of the wicked.
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