psalm-32:1-5,-luke-15:2-niv

Thy sins be forgiven thee. I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. — Who can forgive sins but God only? I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. — Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is... Read More

I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — We are all as an unclean thing. — I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; bu... Read More

Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for- ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have com-passion upon us; he will subdu... Read More

Ye are washed, ... ye are sanctified, ... ye are justified. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. — The chas-tisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Christ ... loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with... Read More

But call to remembrance the former days, in which after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions; partly, while you were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly while ye became companions of them that were so used. For you had compassion on those who ... Read More

Therefore leaving the principles of the Doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God; of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands; and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this... Read More

For the Earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God. But if it bear thorns and briars it is rejected, and near unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. 1. Let us hear the oracles of God with fear, with ... Read More

Rom. VI. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection. What I had before occasion to remark, that I mention here too, that he continually digresses into exhortation, without making any twofold division as he does in the oth... Read More

That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world. 1. The reason, O children greatly beloved, why we entertain you portion by portion with the thoughts taken from the Scriptures, and do not at once pour all forth to you, is, that the retaining what is successively set before ... Read More

David is the principal object before the mind of the Spirit of God in both the 1st and the 2nd books of Samuel. In the 1st book we see him brought from obscurity into honour and praise, and there standing, by the good hand of God, in full righteousness amid the persecutions of the wicked. In the 2nd... Read More