“And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.”
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“And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.”
“Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: / And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.”
“Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.”
“Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? / Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? / Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.”
“So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; / And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.”
“When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.”
