I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”

She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

Paul’s Sincerity

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”