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)
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)
1 Corinthians 6:20
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20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.(A)
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Acts 3:18-19
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18 In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah[a] would suffer.(A) 19 Repent, therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,
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- 3.18 Or his Christ
1 Peter 1:18-19
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18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.(A)
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Isaiah 43:1
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Restoration and Protection Promised
43 But now thus says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name; you are mine.(A)
Psalm 103:12
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12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far he removes our transgressions from us.(A)
Titus 2:12-14
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12 training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,(A) 13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior,[a] Jesus Christ.(B) 14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.(C)
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- 2.13 Or of the great God and our Savior
Jeremiah 33:8
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8 I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.(A)
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Isaiah 55:7
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7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(A)
Psalm 51:9
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9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.(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)
Hosea 14:1-4
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A Plea for Repentance
14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.(A)
2 Take words with you
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all guilt;
accept that which is good,
and we will offer
the fruit[a] of our lips.(B)
3 Assyria shall not save us;
we will not ride upon horses;
we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
In you the orphan finds mercy.”(C)
Assurance of Forgiveness
4 I will heal their disloyalty;
I will love them freely,
for my anger has turned from them.(D)
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- 14.2 Gk Syr: Heb bulls
Jeremiah 3:12-14
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12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say:
Return, faithless Israel,
says the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for I am merciful,
says the Lord;
I will not be angry forever.(A)
13 Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you have rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree
and have not obeyed my voice,
says the Lord.(B)
14 Return, O faithless children,
says the Lord,
for I am your husband;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.(C)
Isaiah 48:20
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20 Go out from Babylon; flee from Chaldea;
declare this with a shout of joy; proclaim it;
send it forth to the end of the earth;
say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”(A)
Luke 1:73-74
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73 the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham,
to grant us 74 that we, being rescued from the hands of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,(A)
Lamentations 3:42-44
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42 We have transgressed and rebelled,
and you have not forgiven.(A)
43 You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
killing without pity;(B)
44 you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can pass through.
Isaiah 59:20-21
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20 And he will come to Zion as Redeemer,
to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the Lord.(A)
21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth or out of the mouths of your children or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from now on and forever.(B)
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Isaiah 51:11
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11 So the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with rejoicing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.(A)
Isaiah 1:27
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27 Zion shall be redeemed by justice,
and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
Psalm 109:14
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14 May the iniquity of his father[a] be remembered before the Lord,
and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.(A)
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- 109.14 Cn: Heb fathers
Job 37:11
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11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.(A)
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
Jeremiah 3:1
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Unfaithful Israel
3 If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
Would not such a land be greatly polluted?
You have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
and would you return to me?
says the Lord.(A)
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- 3.1 Gk Syr: Heb Saying, If
Isaiah 1:18
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18 Come now, let us argue it out,
says the Lord:
If your sins are like scarlet,
will they become like snow?
If they are red like crimson,
will they become like wool?(A)
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