Responding Properly to Our Sin

I Must Ask Others for Forgiveness

God Wants Us to Seek Forgiveness from Others

Matthew 5:24 NASB95

leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.

God Wants Us to Live in Peace with Others

Romans 12:18 NASB95

If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

I Must Ask God for Forgiveness

God Desires our Repentance

Psalm 32:5 NASB95

I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.

Psalm 51:16–17 NASB95

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Our Sin Can Hinder Our Prayers

1 Peter 3:7 NASB95

You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

God WILL Forgive You if You Repent

1 John 1:9 NASB95

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.