2 Samuel 12:13

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Then David exclaimed to Nathan,“I have sinned against the LORD!” Nathan replied to David,“Yes, and the LORD has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.

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  • 2 Sam 24:10 : 10 David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD,“I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.
  • 1 Sam 15:30 : 30 Saul again replied,“I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the LORD your God.”
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love? 19 Who will once again have mercy on us? Who will conquer our evil deeds? Who will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea?
  • Zech 3:4 : 4 The angel spoke up to those standing all around,“Remove his filthy clothes.” Then he said to Joshua,“I have freely forgiven your iniquity and will dress you in fine clothing.”
  • Ps 32:1-5 : 1 By David; a well-written song. How blessed is the one whose rebellious acts are forgiven, whose sin is pardoned! 2 How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long. 4 For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.(Selah) 5 Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said,“I will confess my rebellious acts to the LORD.” And then you forgave my sins.(Selah)
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.
  • Ps 51:16 : 16 Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.
  • Ps 130:3-4 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you? 4 But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.
  • Prov 25:12 : 12 Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.
  • Lev 24:17 : 17 “‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.
  • Num 35:31-33 : 31 Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death. 32 And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest. 33 “You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
  • 1 Sam 15:20 : 20 Then Saul said to Samuel,“But I have obeyed the LORD! I went on the campaign the LORD sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.
  • 1 Sam 15:24-25 : 24 Then Saul said to Samuel,“I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the LORD commanded and your words as well. For I was afraid of the army, and I obeyed their voice. 25 Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship the LORD.”
  • 1 Kgs 13:4 : 4 When the king heard the prophet’s message that he had cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam took his hand from the altar and pointed it saying,“Seize him!” Then the hand that he had pointed at him stiffened up and he could not pull it back.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him,“So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah replied,“I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat,“There is still one man through whom we can seek the LORD’s will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said,“The king should not say such things.”
  • 2 Kgs 1:9 : 9 The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him,“Prophet, the king says,‘Come down!’”
  • 2 Chr 16:10 : 10 Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.
  • 2 Chr 24:20-22 : 20 God’s Spirit energized Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them,“This is what God says:‘Why are you violating the commands of the LORD? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the LORD, he has rejected you!’” 21 They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple. 22 King Joash disregarded the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s son. As Zechariah was dying, he said,“May the LORD take notice and seek vengeance!”
  • 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 While he was speaking, Amaziah said to him,“Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” So the prophet stopped, but added,“I know that God has decided to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”
  • Job 7:20-21 : 20 If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you? 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
  • Job 33:27 : 27 That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
  • Matt 14:3-5 : 3 For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, 4 because John had repeatedly told him,“It is not lawful for you to have her.” 5 Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.
  • Matt 14:10 : 10 So he sent and had John beheaded in the prison.
  • Luke 15:21 : 21 Then his son said to him,‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 The Response to Peter’s Address Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,“What should we do, brothers?”
  • Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
  • Rom 8:33-34 : 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died(and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.
  • 1 John 1:7-2:1 : 7 But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. 1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One,
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood
  • Isa 6:5-7 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.” 6 But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said,“Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.”
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the Pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.
  • Isa 43:24 : 24 You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you.”
  • Lam 3:32 : 32 Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.

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    5Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan,“As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

    6Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!”

    7Nathan said to David,“You are that man! This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘I chose you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

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    9Why have you shown contempt for the LORD’s decrees by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife to be your own wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

    10So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’

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    14Nonetheless, because you have treated the LORD with such contempt in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die.”

    15Then Nathan went to his home. The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.

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