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Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’
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She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
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Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
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For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
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Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
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Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.”
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Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?
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But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.”
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While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples.
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When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
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But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”
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And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
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But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
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So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”
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The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
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But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
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Dealing With Sin in the Church
“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
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The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”
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Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
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Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
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Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
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“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
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“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
