Eze 16:52, 60-63, 36:25-32, Mic 7:18-19, Mat 9:13, Luk 7:47, 23:39-43 | ESV | STEP | Bear your disgrace , you also , for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters . Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed , you also , and bear your disgrace , for you have made your sisters appear righteous .

52 ^aBear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

Ezekiel 16:60-63

60 yet ^bI will remember my covenant with you ^cin the days of your youth, ^dand I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 61 ^eThen you will remember your ways ^fand be ashamed when you take ^gyour sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you ^has daughters, but not on account of ^{▼▼Or not apart from} the covenant with you. 62 I will establish my covenant with you, ^jand you shall know that I am the Lord, 63 that you may remember and be confounded, and ^knever open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 36:25-32

25 ^lI will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from ^mall your uncleannesses, and ⁿfrom all your idols ^oI will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you ^pa new heart, and ^qa new spirit I will put within you. ^rAnd I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 ^sAnd I will put my Spirit within you, ^tand cause you to walk in my statutes and ^ube careful to obey my rules. ^{▼▼Or my just decrees} 28 ^wYou shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ^xyou shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 And ^yI will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And ^zI will summon the grain and make it abundant and ^aalay no famine upon you. 30 ^abI will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, ^acthat you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. 31 Then ^adyou will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 ^aeIt is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord God; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

Micah 7:18-19

God’s Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 ^afWho is a God like you, ^agpardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
^ahfor the remnant of his inheritance?
^aiHe does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
19 He will ^ajagain have compassion on us;
^akhe will tread our iniquities underfoot.
^alYou will cast all our ^{▼▼Hebrew their} sins
into the depths of the sea.

Matthew 9:13

13 Go and learn ^anwhat this means: ^ao‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For ^apI came not to call the righteous, ^aqbut sinners.”

Luke 7:47

47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, ^arwhich are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”

Luke 23:39-43

39 ^asOne of the criminals who were hanged ^atrailed at him, ^{▼▼Or blasphemed him} saying, “Are you not ^avthe Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 And he said, “Jesus, remember me ^awwhen you come into your kingdom.” 43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in ^axparadise.”