Ezekiel 33:14
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14 Again, (A)though I say to the wicked, (B)‘You shall surely die,’ yet (C)if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
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Ezekiel 18:27
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27 Again, (A)when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
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Hosea 14:1
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
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Ezekiel 33:8
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8 (A)If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, (B)and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, (C)that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
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Jeremiah 18:7-8
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7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will (A)pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, (B)turns from its evil, (C)I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
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Isaiah 55:7
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7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Micah 6:8
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8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and (A)what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,[a]
and to (B)walk humbly with your God?
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- Micah 6:8 Or steadfast love
Proverbs 28:13
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13 Whoever (A)conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
but he who (B)confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Acts 3:19
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19 (A)Repent therefore, and (B)turn back, that (C)your sins may be blotted out,
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Luke 13:3-5
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3 No, I tell you; but unless you (A)repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in (B)Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you (C)repent, you will all likewise perish.”
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Matthew 9:13
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13 Go and learn (A)what this means: (B)‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For (C)I came not to call the righteous, (D)but sinners.”
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Ezekiel 18:21
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21 (A)“But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does (B)what is just and right, (C)he shall surely live; he shall not die.
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Ezekiel 3:18-19
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18 (A)If I say to the wicked, (B)‘You shall surely die,’ (C)and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person (D)shall die for[a] his iniquity, (E)but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 (F)But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, (G)but you (H)will have delivered your soul.
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- Ezekiel 3:18 Or in; also verses 19, 20
Jeremiah 4:1
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4 “If you return, O Israel,
declares the Lord,
(A)to me you should return.
If you remove your detestable things from my presence,
(B)and do not waver,
Isaiah 3:11
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11 (A)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
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