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I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 43:25 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
  • BSB I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
  • 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 be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”
  • Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
  • Heb 10:17“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”
  • Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
  • Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Isa 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
  • Ps 25:7Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
  • Ps 79:8–9Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
  • Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
  • Acts 3:19“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
  • Rom 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
  • Isa 43:11I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
  • Mark 2:7“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
  • Ps 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
  • Ps 51:9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
  • Jer 50:20In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
  • Isa 48:8–10Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
  • Ezek 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.
  • Ezek 20:14But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
  • Ezek 20:9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
  • Isa 37:35‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
  • Ezek 20:22Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
  • Ezek 36:32Nor for your sake do I this, says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.
  • Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
  • Eph 1:8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

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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).

How Isaiah 43:25 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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