Sin and God’s character

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In his righteousness and holiness, God detests sin and its effects upon humanity. In his mercy and grace, he makes available a means of atonement, by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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God’s character and sin

God himself is perfect

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Jesus Christ is sinless

1 Peter 2:22 NKJV
“Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;
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God’s people are to be holy

1 Peter 1:15–16 NKJV
but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
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God’s attitude to sin

God knows all sin

Jeremiah 16:17 NKJV
For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.
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God grieves over sin

Genesis 6:6 NKJV
And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
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God hates sin

Psalm 11:5 NKJV
The Lord tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
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Sin provokes God’s anger

Romans 1:18 NKJV
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
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God is also merciful and gracious

Exodus 34:6–7 NKJV
And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
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God’s patience with sinners

2 Peter 3:9 NKJV
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
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Jesus Christ is the supreme revelation of God’s love for sinners

Jesus Christ’s ministry of forgiveness

1 Timothy 1:15 NKJV
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
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God’s love shown in Jesus Christ’s death

Romans 5:8 NKJV
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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The risen Christ gives grace to sinful people

1 John 2:1 NKJV
My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
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