I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
Parallel translations
- WEB I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
- KJV I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
- NKJV “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.
- NASB ¶“I, I alone, am the one who wipes out your wrongdoings for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.
- NLT “I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again.
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Quick answer
God Himself blots out transgressions for His own sake and remembers sins no more. It declares free, gracious forgiveness rooted in God's character, not human merit.
Overview
After listing Israel's failures, God astonishingly announces full pardon, and that for His own sake. Forgiveness flows from His grace and glory, not from anything the people offered. This is the heart of the gospel, fulfilled at the cross where God blots out sin and remembers it no more for those in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 25
- Heb 8:12For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- Mic 7:18–19Who 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?
- Heb 10:17Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
- Jer 31:34No 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 will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- Isa 1:18“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.
- Isa 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Ps 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
- Ps 79:8–9Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
- Isa 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Acts 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
- Rom 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- Isa 43:11I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
- Mark 2:7“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
- Ps 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
- Ps 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
- Jer 50:20In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
- Isa 48:8–10You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
- Ezek 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.
- Ezek 20:14But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Ezek 20:9But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
- Isa 37:35‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- Ezek 20:22But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Ezek 36:32It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD—let it be known to you. Be ashamed and disgraced for your ways, O house of Israel!
- Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- Eph 1:8that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
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Christ at the center
Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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