guilt and shame

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.

⁴Do not be afraid! For you will not be confounded, and you will not blush. And you will not be put to shame, because you shall forget the confusion of your youth, and you shall no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood.

¹³Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.

¹⁹He will turn back and have mercy on us. He will put away our iniquities, and he will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

¹My little sons, this I write to you, so that you may not sin. But if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just One.

⁸The Lord is compassionate and merciful, patient and full of mercy. ⁹He will not be angry forever, and he will not threaten for eternity. ¹⁰He has not dealt with us according to our sins, and he has not repaid us according to our iniquities. ¹¹For according to the height of the heavens above the earth, so has he reinforced his mercy toward those who fear him. ¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our iniquities from us.

²²And so, repent from this, your wickedness, and beg God, so that perhaps this plan of your heart might be forgiven you.

⁴And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no more. And neither mourning, nor crying out, nor grief shall be anymore. For the first things have passed away.”

²³For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.

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

¹³For all those who have called upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

¹²O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me. ¹³For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.

⁷The Lord God is my helper. Therefore, I have not been confounded. Therefore, I have set my face like a very hard rock, and I know that I will not be confounded.

¹⁸Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.