Sin and Salvation
Nineveh Repenting Upon Hearing the Prophecy of Jonah by Maarten deVos c.1585
Is the cross required for sinners to be saved?
"I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin." - Psalm 32:5
"He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors God; to him who orders his way aright will be shown the salvation of God." - Psalm 50:23
"By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of YHVH a man avoids evil." - Proverbs16:6
"I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake; and thy sins I will not remember." - Isaiah 43:25
"I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins; return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee." - Isaiah 44:22
"Let the wicked forsake his way, & the unrighteous man his thoughts; & let him return to God, & he will have mercy upon him; & to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." - Isaiah 55:7
"If the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; in his righteousness that he has done he shall live." - Ezekiel 18:21-22
"And God saw their doings, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which he had said that he would do to them; and he did not do it." - Jonah 3:10
"Our fathers...hearkened not to Thy commandments...but Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and forsook them not." - Nehemiah 9:16-17
"O King [Nebuchadnezzar]....break off your sins by practicing righteousness, & your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your tranquillity." - Daniel 4:27
"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” - 2 Chronicles 7:14
"The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin." - Deuteronomy 24:16
"I, I myself, am YHWH; and beside me there is no savior." - Isaiah 43:11
"I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake; and thy sins I will not remember." - Isaiah 43:25
"O Israel, that art saved by YHVH with an everlasting salvation; ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded, world without end." - Isaiah 45:17
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