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To get the most out of this page, first read everything in it except the actual Scriptures. This will give you a valuable overview, without getting bogged down with details. Then go back to the top, this time reading everything, including the Scriptures.

It is written in the first person (I/me) so that as you can read, you can apply it directly to yourself.

* Scripture is filled with promises to everyone who in faith commits his or her life to Jesus. I refuse to dishonor God by implying that he lied. Because he has made to promise to everyone, I am included.

The Bible is filled with promises of salvation to everyone

Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

Romans 3:22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, (23) for all have sinned . . . (24) and all are justified freely by his grace . . .

Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. (6) We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

John 3:14 . . . the Son of Man must be lifted up, (15) that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. (16) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. . . . (18) Whoever believes in him is not condemned . . .

John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life . . .

John 5:24 I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

John 6:37 . . . whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

John 6:40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 10:9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture.

Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. (25) The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

Matthew 10:32 Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.

Luke 11:10 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Acts 17:30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

Acts 10:43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.

Acts 13:39 Through him everyone who believes is justified . . .

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Ezekiel 18:32 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!

Proverbs 28:13 He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

1 John 4:15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God . . .

1 Timothy 2:3 . . . God our Savior, (4) who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. (5) For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, (6) who gave himself as a ransom for all men.

Psalm 103:3 who forgives all your sins . . .

Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.

Luke 11:10 For everyone who asks receives . . .

Psalm 145:18 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Psalm 86:5 You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you.

Acts 2:21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile – the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him (13) for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Emphasis mine)

* Jesus did not die just for “minor” sins, but for the sins of the entire world.

Isaiah 45:22 Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

John 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

1 John 2:2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. (Emphasis mine)

* Salvation is never deserved. Salvation is by faith (in Jesus’ ability to secure my forgiveness) not by works. So my salvation hinges on me choosing to believe my eternal destiny depends solely on what Jesus has done for me and not the slightest on what I have done.

I make that choice right now. I choose to regard my works (irrespective of whether they seem good or bad) as powerless to determine my fate. I believe that Jesus’ sacrificial death and resurrection on my behalf – and that alone – determines my spiritual destiny. I place my faith solely in Jesus and not in my efforts. Therefore, according to the promise of Almighty God, the blood of Jesus cleanses me from all sin. The magnitude of my unworthiness and the grossness of my depravity is swallowed up by Jesus’ power to save and his worthiness.

Salvation is by faith (in Jesus’ ability to secure my forgiveness) not by works

Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – (9) not by works, so that no one can boast.

Romans 1:17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.

Romans 9:30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; (31) but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. (32) Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”

Romans 9:16 It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

2 Timothy 1:9 who has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

Titus 3:5 He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. . . .

John 6:28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” (29) Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

Romans 3:22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, (23) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (24) and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Romans 4:4 Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. (5) However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Philippians 3:4  . . . If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: . . . (6) as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. (7) But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. (8) What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ (9) and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

Galatians 2:16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.

Galatians 3:11 Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

* I am not the person who sinned. That person died with Jesus. That person is dead – non-existent.

I am not the person who sinned

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Ephesians 4:24 . . . put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

John 3:3 In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

That person died with Jesus

Colossians 2:20 Since you died with Christ . . .

Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Romans 6:4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death . . . (5) If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. (6) For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin – (7) because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. (8) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. (9) For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. (10) The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. (11) In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

* As Jesus rose from the dead, so with him I have risen to a brand new life.

Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. (13) When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins.

Colossians 3:1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Ephesians 2:4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy (5) made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. (6) And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus (7) in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. (5) If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.

Romans 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

* God says in his Word that my sins are pardoned, forgiven, not remembered, wiped out, swept away, taken away, removed as far as the east is from the west (an infinite distance), trampled on (destroyed) and hurled into the depths of the sea, unable to be found, blotted out, cleansed, washed, made as white as snow.

Pardoned

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Forgiven

Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace (8) that he lavished on us . . .

Numbers 14:18 The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. . . .

Psalm 32:5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD” – and you forgave the guilt of my sin.

Psalm 65:3 When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions.

Psalm 86:5 You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you.

Not remembered

Hebrews 8:12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.

Hebrews 10:17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

Wiped out

Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.

Swept away

Isaiah 44:22 I have swept away your offences like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist.

Taken away

John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

Romans 11:27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.

1 John 3:5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. . . .

Removed as far as the east is from the west

Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Trampled on and hurled into the depths of the sea

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry for ever but delight to show mercy. (19) You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

Unable to be found

Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, at that time,” declares the LORD, “search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare.

Blotted out

Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more

Cleansed

Jeremiah 33:8 I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me.

Ezekiel 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities . . .

Hebrews 9:14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

Washed

1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders (10) nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (11) And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Made as white as snow

Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. . . .”

* The past has passed. In Christ I am a new person; fresh, clean and completely free from my past. The person I now am – newly created by Jesus – is spotlessly pure and innocent.

The past has passed

Isaiah 43:18 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. (19) See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

Isaiah 65:17 . . . The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

Philippians 3:13 . . . But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, (14) I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

In Christ I am a new person

Ephesians 4:24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Pure

Titus 2:13 . . . our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, (14) who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own . . .

1 John 1:7 . . . the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

2 Corinthians 11:2 . . . I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

Note that this is written in the same church as the following:

1 Corinthians 6:9 . . . the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders (10)nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (11) And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (Emphasis mine)

Hebrews 1:3  . . . After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

Acts 15:9 He made no distinction between us [Jews] and them [Gentiles], for he purified their hearts by faith.

Ezekiel 36:25  . . . I will cleanse you from all your impurities . . .

Holy

Hebrews 10:10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. . . . (14) because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

Ephesians 1:4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

Ephesians 4:24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Colossians 1:22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation – (23) if you continue in your faith . . .

Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved . . .

1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ – their Lord and ours.

1 Corinthians 1:8 He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

* On the cross, Jesus traded places with me. He has taken all my blame and given me his holiness. Because Jesus swapped places with me, I am sinless in the eyes of my Judge.

Isaiah 53:4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. (5) But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. (6) We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. . . . (8)  . . . For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken. (9) He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. (10) Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand. (11)  . . . by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. (12)  . . .  he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Romans 5:6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. (7) Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. (8) But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (9) Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (10) For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people.

1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. . . .

Matthew 20:28  . . .the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Romans 4:25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

Romans 5:18 Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. (19) For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Romans 8:32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

1 Corinthians 15:3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. (15) And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 3:22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, (23) for all have sinned . . . (24) and all are justified freely by his grace . . .

* Jesus was tortured so that everyone who accepts his sacrifice could go scot-free. He bore my punishment. I refuse to torment myself because that would be rendering his agony on my behalf a waste. I choose to delight Jesus and make his suffering for me worthwhile by enjoying his forgiveness.

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* God forgives me, so lest I imply my standards are holier than God’s, I forgive myself.

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I forgive myself

Acts 10:15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

* The Bible says I am “in Christ.” As my skin completely covers my body, so Christ’s beauty and righteousness and honor completely covers and beautifies me.

The Bible says I am “in Christ.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation . . .

1 Peter 5:14 Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

As my skin completely covers my body, so Christ’s beauty and righteousness and honor completely covers and beautifies me.

1 Corinthians 1:30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

Romans 13:14 . . . clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ . . .

Galatians 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. (Emphasis mine)

* Jesus makes me whole. In him I am complete.

Philippians 4:13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

* I delight in all that I now am in Christ Jesus. I am excited about the pure, holy and loved person that I have become because of Jesus.

I delight in all that I now am in Christ Jesus

Ephesians 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

Loved

1 John 4:9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (10) This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Romans 5:7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. (8) But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (9) Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (10) For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died – more than that, who was raised to life – is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

* God is glorified by forgiving me. The more unforgivable I seem the more the extravagant riches of God’s love and mercy are revealed, to the praise of this glory.

God is glorified by forgiving me

Proverbs 19:11 A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense. [And the same applies to God.]

Revelation 5: 3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. (4) I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy . . . (9) And they sang a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. (10) You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”

1 Timothy 1:16 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.

Romans 9:23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy . . .

John 15:8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit . . .

John 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.

Matthew 19:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (25) When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” (26) Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Luke 7:42 Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?” (43) Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said. “ . . . (47) Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven – for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”

Ephesians 1:6 ... to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. (7) In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace (8) that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

Ephesians 1:12 ... in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. (13) And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, (14) who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 2:6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, (7) in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. (8) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – (9) not by works, so that no one can boast.

Philippians 1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ – to the glory and praise of God.

2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Psalm 25:11 For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.

Psalm 79:9 Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.

Psalm 106:8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his mighty power known.

Isaiah 48:8 . . . Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth. (9) For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to cut you off. (10) See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. (11) For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed?

Jeremiah 14:7 Although our sins testify against us, O LORD, do something for the sake of your name. For our backsliding is great; we have sinned against you.

Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more

Ezekiel 20:44 You will know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name’s sake and not according to your evil ways and your corrupt practices . . .

2 Corinthians 4:15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

* God is in love with me.

Isaiah 62:5  . . . as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

In the following the colored parts represent the same Hebrew word:

Deuteronomy 21:11 If you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

Isaiah 38:17 Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.