Clear Path Bible Studies · Honest Hope
What the voice says · what God says back · clearpathbiblestudies.com/hope/repentance-not-shame/
The test first: “For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret.” (2 Corinthians 7:10). A sorrow that never ends is not the godly kind being thorough. Scripture quotations from the World English Bible.
| The voice says | God says |
|---|---|
| “Bring it back out and feel it again.” | “He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”Micah 7:19 |
| “It’s still attached to you. It always will be.” | “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”Psalm 103:12 |
| “God keeps it where He can see it.” | “you have cast all my sins behind your back.”Isaiah 38:17 |
| “He’s waiting for the right moment to bring it up.” | “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”Hebrews 10:17 |
| “You’ll always be the person who did it.” | “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”Zechariah 3:4 |
| “Feel bad long enough and maybe it will count.” | “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.”Isaiah 43:25 |
Conviction names an act and a next step. Accusation names you, and has no door. · From “Repentance Is Not the Same as Living in Shame” · Clear Path Bible Studies