Psalms 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
BSB
ASV
As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
KJV
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
forgiveness pictured as total removal — transgressions carried as far as east is from west
As far as the east is from the west,.... Which Kimchi thinks is mentioned because it contains the length of the habitable world; and therefore it is not said as far as the north is from the south; since a man can go from east to west, but not from north to south, because of the extreme heat and cold.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. O glorious verse, no word even upon the inspired page can excel it! Sin is removed from us by a miracle of love! What a load to move, and yet is it removed so far that the distance is incalculable. Fly as far as the wing of imagination can bear you, and if you journey through space eastward, you are further from the west at every beat of your wing.
Written to them
topics/forgivenessFar as east from west: transgressions removed
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The walk8
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Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
leads to
For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I…
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
Through
1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
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For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
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Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
leads to
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
