The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. – Romans 5:20-21
Love For Enemies
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. – Matthew 5:43-45
God Is Looking Out For You
” ‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. – Ezekiel 34:11-12
Love Demonstrated
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8
Godly Sorrow Leads To Salvation
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. – 2 Corinthians 7:10
You Will Count My Steps
You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made. Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. – Job 14:15-16
Sins Forgiven and Forgotten
No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”- Jeremiah 31:34
God Is Capable
Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits- who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.- Psalm 103:2-5
Not To Judge, But To Save
As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.- John 12:47
What Is Love?
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always hopes, always perseveres.- 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7