Luke 18:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

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

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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.

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

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.”

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

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.

All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

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

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forward and forever more.

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

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.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

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?”

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

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

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

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

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.

Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.

“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.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

“ ‘ “Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

“Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

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