Past Sin

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

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

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.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. — read the full passage →

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 with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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.

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.

God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed, — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

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

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.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

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.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. — read the full passage →

In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’” — read the full passage →

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk. — read the full passage →

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. — read the full passage →

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.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

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 →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

“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,

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. — read the full passage →

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. — read the full passage →

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? — read the full passage →

For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’” — read the full passage →

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.

People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. — read the full passage →

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

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

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. — read the full passage →

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. — read the full passage →

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, — read the full passage →

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?” — read the full passage →

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

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 →

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

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

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house, — read the full passage →

He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household. — read the full passage →

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. — read the full passage →

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. — read the full passage →

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”