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and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
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Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
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“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
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From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
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Woe on Unrepentant Towns
Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
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“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.
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For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
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And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
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“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
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They went out and preached that people should repent.
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He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
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Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
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I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
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The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now something greater than Jonah is here.
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Repent or Perish
Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
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I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
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I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
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I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
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In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
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“‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
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So watch yourselves. “If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.
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Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”
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and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
