Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

We have trespassed

Yet now there is hope

Bible References

We have trespassed

James 2:9
But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Yet now there is hope

1 John 1:7
but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.