Romans 5:20
Greek Text— Romans 5:20The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
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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.”
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.”
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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.
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
“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,
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.
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.
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.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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.”
For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
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.
For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
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.
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.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
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.
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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.”
“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
“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.
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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 times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
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.
For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.
then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
“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.
Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Now therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning this city, about which you say, “It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:”
You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
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.”
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
“A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.