⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

¹⁵ What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

⁶ O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

⁷ Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

⁸ Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.

¹⁵ But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

¹⁶ For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

⁶ So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

² Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

³ For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

¹ For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

¹³ He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

⁵ All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

¹⁷ Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

² Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.

³ O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

¹³ But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

²⁹ Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:

²¹ Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?

²² Jesus says to him, I say not to you, Till seven times; but, Till seventy times seven.

²³ For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.

¹⁴ For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.

³¹ Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.

⁶ Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.

¹⁸ For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

¹¹ Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.

¹⁶ Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.