Colossians 2:14
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14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.
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Ephesians 2:14-16
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14 For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us,(A) 15 abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace,(B) 16 and might reconcile both to God in one body[a] through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it.[b](C)
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Isaiah 44:22
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22 I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.(A)
Hebrews 8:13
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13 In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.(A)
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Isaiah 43:25
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25 I alone am the one
who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins.(A)
Hebrews 7:18
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18 There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment because it was weak and ineffectual(A)
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1 Peter 2:24
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24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,[a] so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds[b] you have been healed.(A)
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Colossians 2:20
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Warnings against False Teachers
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental principles[a] of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,(A)
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- 2.20 Or spirits
Hebrews 10:8-9
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8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
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Hebrews 9:9-10
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9 This is a symbol[a] of the present time, indicating that gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper(A) 10 but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.(B)
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- 9.9 Gk parable
Acts 3:19
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19 Repent, therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,
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Isaiah 57:14
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A Promise of Help and Healing
14 It shall be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way;
remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”(A)
Psalm 51:1
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Psalm 51
Prayer for Cleansing and Pardon
To the leader. A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy,
blot out my transgressions.(A)
Galatians 4:1-4
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4 My point is this: heirs, as long as they are minors, are no better than those who are enslaved, though they are the owners of all the property, 2 but they remain under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father. 3 So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental principles[a] of the world.(A) 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,(B)
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Numbers 5:23
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23 “Then the priest shall put these curses in writing and wash them off into the water of bitterness.
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2 Thessalonians 2:7
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7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed.(A)
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Daniel 5:7-8
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7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners, and the king said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever can read this writing and tell me its interpretation shall be clothed in purple, have a chain of gold around his neck, and rank third in the kingdom.”(A) 8 Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king the interpretation.(B)
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Psalm 51:9
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9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.(A)
Esther 3:12
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12 Then the king’s secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s ring.(A)
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Nehemiah 4:5
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5 Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have raged against the builders.[a](A)
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- 4.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Luke 1:6
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6 Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.(A)
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Esther 8:8
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8 You may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.”(A)
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