Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you. Psalms 51:1-13 (NIV)
The Promise of Love & Forgivness
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love Isaiah According to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Isaiah 51:1-3
The Promise of Wisdom
Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
The Promise of Joy
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Isaiah 51:8 & 12a
The Promise of a Pure Motive & Persistent Witness
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Grant me a willing spirit to sustain me Isaiah 51:10 & 12b
The Promise of Results
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you. PS 51:1-13
The Promise of Presence
But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deut 4:29 (NIV)
The Promise of Judgment
Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, Heb 9:27 (NIV)
The Promise of Forgiveness
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 (NIV)
The Promise of Reconciliation
His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. Eph 2:15-16 (NIV)
The Promise of Life
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" John 11:25-26 (NIV)