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Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

Martin Luther
Jesus, Might, Sin

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

Martin Luther
Strange, Sin, Saved

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

Martin Luther
Sin, Christ, Made

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

Martin Luther
Recognition, Sin, Salvation

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

Martin Luther
Departure, Sin, Sinning
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

Martin Luther
Firsts, Sin, Good Work
Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

Martin Luther
Lying, Lambs, Sin
Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

Martin Luther
Believe, Sin, Christ

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

Martin Luther
Strong, World, Sin

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luther
Faith, Sin, Christ
Letter to Melanchthon, 1521, in 'Epistolae' (Jena, 1556) vol. 1, folio 345 verso

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Martin Luther
Men, Grace, Sin

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Martin Luther
Would Be, Sin, Righteous
Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.54, Fortress Press

So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.

Martin Luther
Fall, May, Sin

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

Martin Luther
Thinking, Sin, Guilty

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