Psalms 85:2
You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
BSB
ASV
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. [Selah
KJV
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
You have remitted the iniquity of Your people. No one remits anything except what is owed. You have covered all their sins. You have covered them with virtues, and therefore the sins do not appear. For example, You have covered iniquity with righteousness, You have covered unchastity with chastity, You have covered blackness with whiteness.
1834–1892
IN THESE two texts we have man's covering, which is worthless and culpable, and God's covering, which is profitable, and worthy of all acceptation. No sooner had man disobeyed his Maker's will in the garden of Eden than he discovered, to his surprise and dismay, that he was naked, and he set about at once to make himself a covering. It was a poor attempt which our first parents made, and it proved a miserable failure. "They sewed fig-leaves together."
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
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?
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I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
Through
Psalms 32:1Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
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I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
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?
Through
Colossians 2:13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
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made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!