9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Let it not be!
6 Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your loving-kindnesses; for they [are] from eternity.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my rebellings; according to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness' sake, O LORD.
15 but the free gift [shall] not [be] also like the offense. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace; which [is] of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love [with] which He loved us
5 (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me completely from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.
13 He who covers his sins shall not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves [them] shall have mercy.
5 A good man shows favor, and lends; he will guide his business with fairness.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us; and establish the work of our hands on us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it.
1 A Song of degrees. Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD.
2 Lord, hear my voice, and let Your ears listen to the voice of My prayers.
13 But go and learn what [this is], I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
18 Who [is] a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights [in] mercy.
29 For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the LORD God of Israel.
2 And the king and his leaders, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, took counsel to keep the Passover in the second month.
3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not made themselves pure enough, nor had the people gathered to Jerusalem.
4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
5 And they established a decree to send a notice throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem. For not many [of them] had done as it was written.
6 And the runners went with the letters from the king and his rulers to Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, O sons of Israel, turn again to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped out of the hands of the king of Assyria.
7 And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers who sinned against the LORD God of their fathers, and He made them for a horror, as you see.
8 And do not be stiffnecked like your fathers. Yield yourselves to the LORD and enter into His temple which He has sanctified forever. And serve the LORD your God, so that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.
9 For if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers and your sons will have mercies before those who lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land. For the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.
10 And the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
11 However, men from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the command of the king and of the rulers, by the word of the LORD.
13 And many people gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened [Bread] in the second month, a very great congregation.
14 And they arose and took away the altars in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and threw [them] into the torrent Kidron.
15 And they killed the Passover on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed and made themselves pure, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
16 And they stood in their place in their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood from the hand of the Levites.
17 For many in the congregation [were] not sanctified. And the Levites were over the killing of the passovers for every one [who was] not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD.
18 For many of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not been cleansed, but ate the Passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May the good LORD pardon everyone
19 [who] prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
20 And the LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
21 And the sons of Israel found at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened [Bread] seven days with great gladness. And the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day with loud instruments to the LORD.
22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the LORD. And they ate the appointed things seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
23 And the whole gathering agreed to keep another seven days. And they kept [another] seven days with gladness.
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep. And the rulers gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. And a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
26 And there was great joy in Jerusalem. For from the days of Solomon the son of David the king of Israel [there was] nothing like this in Jerusalem.
27 And the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people. And their voice was heard, and their prayer came to His holy dwelling-place, to Heaven.
1 [They] say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says the LORD.
2 Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
4 Will you not from this time cry to Me, My father, [You are] the guide of my youth?
5 Will He keep [His anger] forever? Will He keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done [all] the evil things you could do.
6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.
7 And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn to Me! But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8 And I saw, when for all the causes [for] which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and gave a bill of divorce to her, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she went and whored, she also.
9 And it happened, from the folly of her whoredom, she defiled the land and fornicated with stones and stocks.
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, says the LORD.
11 And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12 Go and cry these words toward the north, and say, Return, O backsliding Israel, says the LORD; [and] I will not cause My anger to fall on you; for I [am] merciful, says the LORD, [and] I will not keep anger forever.
13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against the LORD your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says the LORD.
14 Turn, O backsliding sons, says the LORD; for I am married to you; and I will take you one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
15 And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you [with] knowledge and understanding.
16 And it will be when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD! Nor shall it come to mind; nor shall they remember it; nor shall they visit [it]; nor shall it be made any more.
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. Nor shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.
19 But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance [among] the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.
20 Surely [as] a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.
21 A voice was heard on the high places weeping, cryings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
22 Return, O backsliding sons, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to You; for You are Jehovah our God.
23 Truly, for delusion [comes] from the high hills, tumult [on] the mountains. Truly, in Jehovah our God [is] the salvation of Israel.
24 For shame has eaten up the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.
21 Then Peter came to Him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Until seven times?
22 Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven.
31 But for Your great mercies, You did not completely destroy them nor forsake them. For You [are] a gracious and merciful God.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
16 Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;
18 And so the LORD waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD [is] a God of judgment; blessed [are] all those who wait for Him.
11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth always watch over me.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.