Jeremiah 2:35

¹³He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

⁸If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

³‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

⁹I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

⁹‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

²³“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

⁹“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

³¹A noise will come even to the end of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations. He will enter into judgment with all flesh. As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,”’ says the LORD.”

²⁹“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD.