Our Sins Have Disappeared

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    Ways the Bible Describes this Mystery


        Psalm 65:3 When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions.

        Psalm 103:12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

        Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool . . .”

        Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more

        Isaiah 44:22 I have swept away your offences like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist.

        Jeremiah 33:8 I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me.

        Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, at that time,” declares the LORD, “search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare.

        Ezekiel 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities . . .

        Micah 7:18-19 Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry for ever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

        John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

        Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord

        Romans 6:6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin

        Romans 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

        Romans 11:27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.

        1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

        Hebrews 8:12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.

        Hebrews 10:17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

        1 John 3:5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. . . .

        Emphasis mine.

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