Quotes About Redemption

The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.

Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

An evil man is caught by his own sin, but a righteous one sings and rejoices.

Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”

Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.

For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.