Job 7:21
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21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
you will seek me, but I shall not be.”(A)
Daniel 12:2
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2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth[a] shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.(A)
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- 12.2 Or the land of dust
Job 10:14
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14 If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.(A)
1 John 1:9
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9 If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.(A)
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Isaiah 64:9
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9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
and do not remember iniquity forever.
Now consider, we are all your people.(A)
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[a] returns to God who gave it.(A)
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- 12.7 Or the spirit
1 John 3:5
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5 You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.(A)
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Titus 2:14
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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.(A)
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John 1:29
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The Lamb of God
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!(A)
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Micah 7:18-19
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God’s Compassion and Steadfast Love
18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over the transgression
of the remnant of his possession?
He does not retain his anger forever
because he delights in showing steadfast love.(A)
19 He will again have compassion upon us;
he will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all our[a] sins
into the depths of the sea.(B)
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- 7.19 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb their
Hosea 14:2
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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.(A)
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- 14.2 Gk Syr: Heb bulls
Lamentations 5:20-22
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20 Why have you forgotten us completely?
Why have you forsaken us these many days?(A)
21 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored;
renew our days as of old—(B)
22 unless you have utterly rejected us
and are angry with us beyond measure.(C)
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 26:19
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19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[a] shall rise.
Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy![b]
For your dew is a radiant dew,
and the earth will give birth to those long dead.[c](A)
Psalm 103:15
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15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;(A)
Psalm 37:36
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- 37.36 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb he
Job 21:32-33
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32 When they are carried to the grave,
a watch is kept over their tomb.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to them;
everyone will follow after,
and those who went before are innumerable.(A)
Job 17:14
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14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(A)
Job 13:23-24
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23 How many are my iniquities and my sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.(A)
24 Why do you hide your face
and count me as your enemy?(B)
Job 10:9
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9 Remember that you fashioned me like clay,
and will you turn me to dust again?(A)
Job 7:8
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8 The eye that beholds me will see me no more;
while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.(A)
Job 3:13
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13 Now I would be lying down and quiet;
I would be asleep; then I would be at rest
2 Samuel 24:10
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Judgment on David’s Sin
10 But afterward, David was stricken to the heart because he had numbered the people. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, I pray you, take away the guilt of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”(A)
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