1 Samuel 12:7

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’ ”

He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer.”

Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.

“Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”

My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,