Genesis 4:6

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

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

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

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

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

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

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.”

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.

“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.

“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.

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.

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.

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

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

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

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.

Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

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

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 to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?