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 convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still 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, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
Psalms 103:8-14
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
Luke 15:11-24
Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons. The younger son said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing. Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death! I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’ So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
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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