🕊️ Forgiveness

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Be kind and forgiving to one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Bear with each other and forgive, as the Lord forgave you.

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

If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse us.

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

As far as east is from west, God has removed our transgressions from us.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Jesus links receiving forgiveness with our willingness to forgive others.

“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.

God invites reason together — though sins are scarlet, they shall be white as snow.

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

God delights in mercy and will cast all sins into the depths of the sea.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Forgive, and you will be forgiven — Jesus teaches the reciprocal nature of grace.

“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,

Repent and turn back so that sins may be blotted out and times of refreshing come.

By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

David celebrates the blessedness of being forgiven — transgression covered, sin not counted.