As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Parallel translations
- WEB As far as the east is from the west, so far has 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.
- NKJV As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
- NASB As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our wrongdoings from us.
- NLT He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.
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Quick answer
As far as the east is from the west, so far God removes our transgressions from us. Forgiveness in Christ is complete and final.
Overview
East and west never meet, an image of infinite, immeasurable distance. God removes our sins so thoroughly that they can never be brought back against us. This separation is accomplished by Christ, who took away our sin so that God remembers it no more (Hebrews 8:12).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Isa 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- 1 Jn 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.
- Mic 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?
- 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.
- 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.”
- Heb 10:2If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
- 2 Sam 12:13Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
- 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 45:6so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
- Ps 113:3From where the sun rises to where it sets, the name of the LORD is praised.
- Ps 50:1A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
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