Guilt And Shame

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“Don’t be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. — read the full passage →

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. — read the full passage →

For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Instead of your shame you shall have double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. — read the full passage →

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — read the full passage →

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. — read the full passage →

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me. — read the full passage →

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;