204. What is the forgiveness of sins?
God promises that, for Christ's sake, He willnot hold our many sins against us.
Psalm 130:3-4 If You, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness, that You may be feared.
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
2 Corinthians 5:19 In Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Read Matthew 18:23-35, where the king forgave the debts of his servant, and also Isaiah 1:18; Micah 7:18-19; and 1 John 2:1.
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