FORGIVEN
ISAIAH 60:10 (NLT)
For though I have destroyed you in my anger,
I will now have mercy on you through my grace.
COLOSSIANS 2:13-14 (CEB)
God made you alive with Christ and forgave all the things you had done wrong. He destroyed the record of the debt we owed, with its requirements that worked against us. He canceled it by nailing it to the cross.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's mercy and grace come to us through Christ -- who has released us from the eternal consequences of our wrongdoing.
PRAYER
This is a wonderful thing, O God! You've forgiven us and all who turn and accept your forgiveness move forward with a clean slate. I don't say enough about this. Please give me opportunities today to live out this forgiveness, and to share a word about it with some who need to hear. I'm going to let this good news shape my life. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
