God didn't come to condemn you.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:17
God has loved you forever, even in your sins.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
God didn't come to save the good people, but sinners.
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Luke 5:32
Jesus hung out with sinners in need of saving.
While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Mark 2:15-17
Jesus made a way for you.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6
God loves everyone.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
He will forgive all of your sins.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
When God forgives, he forgives completely.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12
God saves us through grace.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9
By Bethany Acker, Co-Author of No Longer Broken
