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Matthew 3:8
Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.
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Isaiah 1:16-20
“ Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil.Learn to do what is good. Seek justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause.“ Come, let us discuss this,” says the Lord.“ Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will be like wool.If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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Job 36:15
God rescues the afflicted by their affliction; He instructs them by their torment.
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Proverbs 8:4-5
“ People, I call out to you; my cry is to mankind.Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced; develop common sense, you who are foolish.
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Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call to Him while He is near.Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will freely forgive.
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Job 33:16-23
He uncovers their ears at that time and terrifies them with warnings,in order to turn a person from his actions and suppress his pride.God spares his soul from the Pit, his life from crossing the river of death.A person may be disciplined on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,so that he detests bread, and his soul despises his favorite food.His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his unseen bones stick out.He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the executioners.If there is an angel on his side, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what is right for him
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Isaiah 48:17
This is what the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who leads you in the way you should go.
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Isaiah 50:5
The Lord God has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious; I did not turn back.
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Psalms 40:6
You do not delight in sacrifice and offering; You open my ears to listen. You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.
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Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God, for you have stumbled in your sin.
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Isaiah 48:8
You have never heard; you have never known; For a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew that you were very treacherous, and were known as a rebel from birth.
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Proverbs 9:4-6
“ Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!” To the one who lacks sense, she says,“ Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine I have mixed.Leave inexperience behind, and you will live; pursue the way of understanding.
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Jeremiah 7:3-7
“ This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Correct your ways and your deeds, and I will allow you to live in this place.Do not trust deceitful words, chanting: This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.Instead, if you really change your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors long ago and forever.
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Acts 17:30
“ Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,
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2 Kings 17 13
Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying,“ Turn from your evil ways and keep My commands and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.”
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Jeremiah 4:3-4
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up the unplowed ground; do not sow among the thorns.Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of your evil deeds.
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Ezekiel 18:30-31
“ Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.“ Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so they will not be a stumbling block that causes your punishment.Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?
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Acts 16:14
A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was spoken by Paul.
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Acts 3:19
Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out, that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
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James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!
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Proverbs 1:22-23
“ How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?If you respond to my warning, then I will pour out my spirit on you and teach you my words.