God’s Promises in Times of Backsliding

Isaiah 1:18 (New Living Translation)

 ¹⁸ “Come now, let’s settle this,”
      says the Lord.
   “Though your sins are like scarlet,
      I will make them as white as snow.
   Though they are red like crimson,
      I will make them as white as wool.

Jeremiah 3:21-22 (New Living Translation)

 ²¹ Voices are heard high on the windswept mountains,
      the weeping and pleading of Israel’s people.
   For they have chosen crooked paths
      and have forgotten the Lord their God.
 ²² “My wayward children,” says the Lord,
      “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.”
   “Yes, we’re coming,” the people reply,
      “for you are the Lord our God.

Isaiah 30:21 (New Living Translation)

 ²¹ Your own ears will hear him.
      Right behind you a voice will say,
   “This is the way you should go,”
      whether to the right or to the left.

Isaiah 44:22 (New Living Translation)

 ²² I have swept away your sins like a cloud.
      I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist.
   Oh, return to me,
      for I have paid the price to set you free.”

Isaiah 53:6 (New Living Translation)

 ⁶ All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
      We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
   Yet the Lord laid on him
      the sins of us all.

Isaiah 57:18-19 (New Living Translation)

 ¹⁸ I have seen what they do,
      but I will heal them anyway!
      I will lead them.
   I will comfort those who mourn,
    ¹⁹ bringing words of praise to their lips.
   May they have abundant peace, both near and far,”
      says the Lord, who heals them.

1 John 2:1 (New Living Translation)

 ¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous.