Do you think you have sinned so badly that God cannot forgive you? Let’s look at some great people in the bible that sinned just like we do but God gave them a second chance and used them mightily to glorify him.
1. David sinned by committing adultery, deception and murder. He repented and God used him in a mighty way.
2. Apostle Paul who was formerly Saul of Tarsus. He harassed and persecuted Christians in the early church until on the road to Damascus he had an encounter with Jesus. He repented and God used him for his glory.
3. Peter who was a Disciple of Jesus he denied Jesus three times and failed many times just as we do but he was used greatly.
4. The woman who was caught in adultery in the very act and was about to be stoned until Jesus told them he who is without sin cast the first stone. They dropped their stones and left and Jesus told her to go and sin no more.
5. Rahab the Prostitute was used by God by showing her great faith in helping God’s people.
6. Moses killed a man but God still used him.
God wants to forgive you and have a personal relationship with him. He can give you that second chance where others wouldn’t. He wants to use you for his glory!
Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Galatians 6:7– Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Romans 5:12 – Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Mark 9:43 – And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Isaiah 59:2 – But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Proverbs 14:12 – There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
1 John 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Jude 1:7 – Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
1 John 3:4 – Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Ezekiel 18:20 – The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
2 Peter 2:4 – For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
1 Peter 2:1 – Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
John 3:3 – Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Genesis 3:1 – Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God
Mark 11:25 – And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Ephesians 4:32 – And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Matthew 6:15 – But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
1 John 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 18:21– Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Matthew 6:14– For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
James 5:16 – Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Luke 6:27 – But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
Luke 6:37 – Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Colossians 3:13 – Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Psalms 103:10– He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
1 Corinthians 10:13 – There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Proverbs 10:12 – Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
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