Your judgment draws near, says the Lord God; your counsel has drawn near, says the King of Jacob.

Neither have you purchased for Me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of your sacrifices; but you stood before Me in your sins, and in your iniquities.

Put Me in rememberance, and let us contend [together]; confess your transgressions first, that you may be justified.

And now stand still, and I will judge you before the Lord; and I will relate to you all the righteousness of the Lord, the things which He has done among you and your fathers.

Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain?

Hear, O you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you valleys; even the foundations of the earth: for the Lord has a controversy with His people, and will plead with Israel.

And according to Paul's custom, he went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment which is going to be, Felix became afraid and answered, "Go away for now; but when I have opportunity I will summon you."

For behold, I have blotted your transgressions out as a cloud, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.

You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified; You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.

He will return and have mercy upon us; He will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.

But [the] law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and insight,

And I said to him, "My lord, you know." So he said to me, "These are those who come out of the Great Tribulation, and have washed their robes and they made them white in the blood of the Lamb.