and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
2 Chronicles 30:9
My transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.
Job 14:17
You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin.
Psalms 85:2-3
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Psalms 86:5
He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Psalms 103:10-12
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
Psalms 130:3-4
I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 43:25
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22
In those days and in that time, declares the LORD,
iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none,
and sin in Judah, and none shall be found,
for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.
Jeremiah 50:20
The LORD has brought about our vindication;
come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 51:10
The LORD has taken away the judgments against you;
he has cleared away your enemies.
The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst;
you shall never again fear evil.
Zephaniah 3:15
And the angel said to those who were standing before him,
“Remove the filthy garments from him.”And to him he said,
“Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you,
and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”
Zechariah 3:4
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God,
who takes away the sin of the world!”
John 1:29
In him we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of his grace.
Ephesians 1:7
Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 9:22
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
Promises of God’s Intention to Save the Nations
In your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 22:18
All the nations you have made shall come
and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Psalms 86:9
I will make you as a light for the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.
Isaiah 49:6
For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes
what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause
righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Isaiah 61:11
If you return, O Israel, declares the LORD, to me you should return.
If you remove your detestable things from my presence,
and do not waver, and if you swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in
justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in
him, and in him shall they glory.
Jeremiah 4:1-2
So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself
known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know
that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 38:23
For from the rising of the sun to its setting
my name will be great among the nations,
and in every place incense will be offered to my name,
and a pure offering.
For my name will be great among the nations,
says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 1:11
I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts,
and my name will be feared among the nations.
Malachi 1:14
And this gospel of the kingdom
will be proclaimed throughout the whole world
as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matthew 24:14
After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has
fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of
mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by
my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
Acts 15:16-17
We have received grace and apostleship to bring about the
obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations.
Romans 1:5
Now to him who is able to strengthen you
according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mystery
that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed
and through the prophetic writings has been made known
to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God,
to bring about the obedience of faith.
Romans 16:25-26
After this I looked, and behold,
a great multitude that no one could number,
from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages,
standing before the throne and before the Lamb,
clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
and crying out with a loud voice,
“Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb!”
Revelation 7:9-10