Jos. Pettit

Return to God and be forgiven

Hosea 14:1 (ESV)
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Gods wrath

Hosea 13:15 (ESV)
Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.

Despair

Psalm 69:2-3 (ESV)
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

Psalm 69:19-20 (ESV)
You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

Psalm 69:29 (ESV)
But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!

What the heck?

Exodus 4:24 (ESV)
At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death.

Tempting

Luke 4:1 (ESV)
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

Tempting

Mark 1:12 (ESV)
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.

Tempting jesus

Matthew 4:1 (ESV)
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Baptism

Romans 6:3 (ESV)
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Jesus baptism

Matthew 3:13 (ESV)
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

Accountibilty

Ephesians 4:25-27 (ESV)
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

I never knew you

Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV)
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

If we go on...

Hebrews 10:26-27 (ESV)
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Strength in weakness

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (ESV)
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Temptation and sin

James 1:13-15 (ESV)
Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

God is not mocked

Galatians 6:7-8 (ESV)
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Watch and pray

Matthew 26:41 (ESV)
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Little children

Matthew 11:25-26 (ESV)
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;

No secrets

Luke 12:2-3 (ESV)
Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

Love is

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV)
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Judging

Luke 6:34 (ESV)
And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.

Luke 6:37 (ESV)
"Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

Forgive

Luke 7:39 (ESV)
Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner."

Luke 7:44 (ESV)
Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

Luke 7:47 (ESV)
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little."

Forgive

Matthew 6:14-15 (ESV)
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

Forgive

Colossians 3:13 (ESV)
bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Have not sinned

1 John 1:8-10 (ESV)
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Husbands

Ephesians 5:25 (ESV)
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:28-29 (ESV)
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.