If you typed something like does God still love me or am I too far gone, the New Testament was written in part to answer you. Scripture's longest sustained note is the steadiness of God's love for people who have not earned it.
Romans 5:8 is the foundational verse: "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." The love was already there in your worst season. Romans 8:38-39 lists everything that cannot separate you from that love — death, life, angels, principalities, things present, things to come, height, depth — and ends emphatically: nothing.
The prodigal son in Luke 15 came back rehearsing a speech about his unworthiness. His father interrupted it with an embrace. "For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found." That story is the heart of how God receives people who have wandered.
1 John 1:9 — "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" — covers every category of sin you might be afraid is unforgivable. Isaiah 43:25 is God's astonishing word: "I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins." For his own sake. Not yours.
The way back is not impressive. It is honest. Come as you are, say what is true, and trust that the embrace is not contingent on your performance. See also shame, salvation, and repentance.
Verses
Romans 8:38-39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Psalms 103:8-14
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Lamentations 3:22-23
It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Luke 15:11-24
And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Reflection
What specific sin or pattern have you been afraid is past forgiving — and what does scripture actually say about it?
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