¹⁹ Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.

³⁰ “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him.

²⁰ I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that all must repent of their sins and turn to God—and prove they have changed by the good things they do.

²¹ I have had one message for Jews and Greeks alike—the necessity of repenting from sin and turning to God, and of having faith in our Lord Jesus.

³ Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God.

⁸ Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.

³² I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”

¹² So the disciples went out, telling everyone they met to repent of their sins and turn to God.

² “Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.^[a]”

⁸ Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.