Psalms 40:12

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

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.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

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

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

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

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

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.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

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

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

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 you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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

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

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

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.’ ”

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

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.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.

Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

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.

When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

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!’

men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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,