feeling guilty

⁹If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

⁵And this is the announcement which we have heard from him, and which we announce to you: that God is light, and in him there is no darkness.

¹⁸Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.

⁴Wash me once again from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. ⁵For I know my iniquity, and my sin is ever before me. ⁶Against you only have I sinned, and I have done evil before your eyes. And so, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.

⁹You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed. You will wash me, and I will be made whiter than snow. ¹⁰In my hearing, you will grant gladness and rejoicing. And the bones that have been humbled will exult. ¹¹Turn your face away from my sins, and erase all my iniquities. ¹²Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being. ¹³Do not cast me away from your face; and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. ¹⁴Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and confirm me with an unsurpassed spirit.

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh. ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death. ³For though this was impossible under the law, because it was weakened by the flesh, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and because of sin, in order to condemn sin in the flesh, ⁴so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. ⁵For those who are in agreement with the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh. But those who are in agreement with the spirit are mindful of the things of the spirit. ⁶For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.

⁸Jesus Christ, yesterday and today; Jesus Christ forever.

¹The understanding of David himself. Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered. ²Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. ³Because I was silent, my bones grew old, while still I cried out all day long. ⁴For, day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. I have been converted in my anguish, while still the thorn is piercing. ⁵I have acknowledged my offense to you, and I have not concealed my injustice. I said, “I will confess against myself, my injustice to the Lord,” and you forgave the impiety of my sin. ⁶For this, everyone who is holy will pray to you in due time. Yet truly, in a flood of many waters, they will not draw near to him.

⁹Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, ¹⁰nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God. ¹¹And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁴in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins.

¹⁰Now whoever has observed the whole law, yet who offends in one matter, has become guilty of all.

¹Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence. ²But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night. ³And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper. ⁴Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth. ⁵Therefore, the impious will not prevail again in judgment, nor sinners in the council of the just. ⁶For the Lord knows the way of the just. And the path of the impious will pass away.