Isaiah 38:17

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”

“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.

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

“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

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

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.

In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

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

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.

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.

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

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.

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.

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

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

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.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin.

You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.

They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.

Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.