Psalm 51:2-3

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²Wash away^(A) all my iniquity
and cleanse^(B) me from my sin.

³For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.^(C)

Psalm 38:4-6

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⁴My guilt has overwhelmed^(A) me
like a burden too heavy to bear.^(B)

⁵My wounds^(C) fester and are loathsome^(D)
because of my sinful folly.^(E)
⁶I am bowed down^(F) and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.^(G)

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Lamentations 1:20

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²⁰“See, Lord, how distressed^(A) I am!
    I am in torment^(B) within,
and in my heart I am disturbed,^(C)
    for I have been most rebellious.^(D)
Outside, the sword bereaves;
    inside, there is only death.^(E)

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Lamentations 1:20 in all English translations

2 Timothy 1:12

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¹²That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame,^(A) because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard^(B) what I have entrusted to him until that day.^(C)

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2 Timothy 1:12 in all English translations

Hebrews 10:19-22

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A Call to Persevere in Faith

¹⁹Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence^(A) to enter the Most Holy Place^(B) by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by a new and living way^(C) opened for us through the curtain,^(D) that is, his body, ²¹and since we have a great priest^(E) over the house of God,^(F) ²²let us draw near to God^(G) with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings,^(H) having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience^(I) and having our bodies washed with pure water.^(J)

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1 John 3:19-20

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¹⁹This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: ²⁰If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

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