Studies for Forgiveness

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

“Do not judge, or you will be judged.

Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is useful to me in the ministry.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.