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Bible Questions Answered:
“I
witnessed to … and he said, he was going to be born again, because
he has decided to “turn over a new leaf,” change his life for
the better...what could I say?...”
Brenda/
London, England United Kingdom
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
I
Will Be Accepted Because I Will Turn Over A New Leaf.
(God's Answer To Such Thinking)
Psalm
90:8 KJV
Thou
hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of
thy countenance.
Psalm
130:8 KJV
If
thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Isaiah
59:2 KJV
But
your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.
Isaiah
64:6 KJV
But
we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as
filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
like the wind, have taken us away.
Jeremiah
2:22 NLT
No
amount of soap or lye can make you clean. I still see the stain of
your guilt. I, The Sovereign Lord, have spoken!
Jeremiah
13:23 NLT
Can
an Ethiopian[b] change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away
its spots? Neither can you start doing good, for you have
always done evil.
Jeremiah
16:17 KJV
For
Mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from My face,
neither is their iniquity hid from Mine eyes.
Matthew
9:12,13 KJV
12
But when Jesus heard that, He said unto them, They that be whole need
not a physician, but they that are sick.
13
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance.
Romans
3:20 KJV
Therefore
by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His
sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans
9:16 NLT
So
it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor
work for it.
Romans
11:6 NLT
And
since it is through God’s kindness, then it is not by their good
works. For in that case, God’s grace would not be what it
really is—free and undeserved.
Galatians
2:16,21 KJV
16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by
the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ,
that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the
works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be
justified.
21
I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping
the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for
Christ to die.
Ephesians
2:8,9 KJV
8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is The Gift of God:
9
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
II
Timothy 1:9 KJV
Who
hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which
was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Titus
3:4,5 KJV
4
But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man
appeared,
5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration,
and renewing of The Holy Ghost;
Prayer:
Jeremiah
17:9 KJV
The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can
know it?
