The LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and filled with gracious love and truth.

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"Please come, and let's reason together," implores the LORD. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they'll be white like snow. Though they're like crimson, they'll become like wool.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly.

Then you will remember, be ashamed, and you won't open your mouth anymore due to humiliation when I will have made atonement for you for everything that you've done,' declares the Lord GOD."

In addition, I'll deliver you from everything that makes you unclean. I'll call out to the grain you plant, ordering it to produce abundant yields, and I will never bring famine in your direction.

He will again show us compassion; he will subdue our iniquities. You will hurl all their sins into the deepest sea.

God has exalted to his right hand this very man as our Leader and Savior in order to extend repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,

You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,

and the grace of our Lord overflowed toward me, along with the faith and love that are in the Messiah Jesus.

But if we keep living in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

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Simon answered, "I suppose the one who had the larger debt canceled." Jesus told him, "You have answered correctly."

"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.

May grace be with all who sincerely love the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!

And this is my prayer, that your love will keep on growing more and more with full knowledge and insight,

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.

We love because God first loved us.

For this demonstrates our love for God: We keep his commandments, and his commandments are not difficult,

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"How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered!

We love because God first loved us.