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Matthew 3:8
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
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Isaiah 1:16-20
Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”“ Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh:“ Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
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Job 36:15
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
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Proverbs 8:4-5
“ I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
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Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
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Job 33:16-23
Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.“ If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
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Isaiah 48:17
Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says:“ I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
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Isaiah 50:5
The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
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Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
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Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
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Isaiah 48:8
Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
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Proverbs 9:4-6
“ Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,“ Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
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Jeremiah 7:3-7
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says,“ Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.Don’t trust in lying words, saying,‘ Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
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Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
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2 Kings 17 13
Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying,“ Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
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Jeremiah 4:3-4
For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,“ Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
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Ezekiel 18:30-31
“ Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh.“ Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
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Acts 16:14
A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
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Acts 3:19
“ Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing 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, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double- minded.
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Proverbs 1:22-23
“ How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.