forgiveness and transformation

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.

³²And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

¹⁴For if you will forgive men their sins, your heavenly Father also will forgive you your offenses. ¹⁵But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your sins.

³⁷All that the Father gives to me shall come to me. And whoever comes to me, I will not cast out.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

⁴⁷And if anyone has heard my words and not kept them, I do not judge him. For I did not come so that I may judge the world, but so that I may save the world.

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.

¹²And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

¹⁷So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.

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.

¹⁶Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.

¹²Therefore, clothe yourselves like the elect of God: holy and beloved, with hearts of mercy, kindness, humility, modesty, and patience.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

¹⁹Therefore, repent and be converted, so that your sins may be wiped away.

³⁸Yet truly, Peter said to them: “Do penance; and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

⁷In him, we have redemption through his blood: the remission of sins in accord with the riches of his grace,