Jesus will forgive you, he already paid the punishment due for your sins..
Imagine if you were convicted of murder, and were sentenced to die by execution, and the son of the person you murdered came and volunteered to take your place, be executed instead of you, and you were set free. That is what Jesus did for you because he loves you more than you can imagine.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
God loves you more than you can imagine and God wants to be with you. But because God is holy, we cannot be in his presence with the stain of sin upon our souls.
So God, the Almighty Creator, took human form as Jesus and permitted himself to be tortured and killed as an innocent blood offering to erase the stain of sin on our souls. He loves you this much. This act by a loving God bridged the chasm between us and him. God, through Jesus, bore the punishment that was due to us for our disobedience from God. To ignore the sin, is to trivialize the offense, and therefore trivialize God. Our sin is a great offense, which required a great punishment. God loves you so much, that he bore this punishment for you. NONE of us are worthy of this gift, but God offers it through his grace. All you have to do is accept it. It is his free gift to you because he loves YOU.
Salvation is a free gift of God, which requires that we give nothing in return. We need only "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved..." (Acts 16:31).
Eternal life is a "free gift" (Romans 5:15-21; 6:23), which cannot be merited by good works, or lost by bad works.
John 6:28-29
28Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"
29Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
