Jeremiah 3:13
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13 (A)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (B)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:25
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25 (A)Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For (B)we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
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Jeremiah 3:6
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Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
6 The Lord said to me in the days of (A)King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, (B)how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there (C)played the whore?
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Jeremiah 2:25
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25 Keep (A)your feet from going unshod
and (B)your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is hopeless,
(C)for I have loved foreigners,
and after them I will go.’
Deuteronomy 30:1-3
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Repentance and Forgiveness
30 (A)“And (B)when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and (C)you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, 2 and (D)return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 then the Lord your God (E)will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will (F)gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
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Deuteronomy 12:2
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2 (A)You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, (B)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
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1 John 1:8-10
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8 (A)If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and (B)the truth is not in us. 9 (C)If we confess our sins, he is (D)faithful and just to forgive us our sins and (E)to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, (F)we make him a liar, and (G)his word is not in us.
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Luke 15:18-21
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18 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, (A)I have sinned against (B)heaven and before you. 19 (C)I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and (D)ran and (E)embraced him and (F)kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. (G)I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’[a]
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- Luke 15:21 Some manuscripts add treat me as one of your hired servants
Jeremiah 3:2
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2 Lift up your eyes to (A)the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
(B)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
(C)You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
Jeremiah 2:20
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20 “For long ago I (A)broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, (B)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (C)on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down (D)like a whore.
Ezekiel 16:24-25
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24 you built yourself (A)a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every street (B)you built your lofty place and made (C)your beauty an abomination, (D)offering yourself[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
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- Ezekiel 16:25 Hebrew spreading your legs
Ezekiel 16:15
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15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty (B)and played the whore[a] because of your renown (C)and lavished your whorings[b] on any passerby; your beauty[c] became his.
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- Ezekiel 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
- Ezekiel 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
- Ezekiel 16:15 Hebrew it
Jeremiah 31:18-20
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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (C)I had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, (D)I struck my thigh;
(E)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 (F)Is Ephraim my dear son?
(G)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
(H)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels
Jeremiah 14:20
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20 (A)We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord,
and the iniquity of our fathers,
(B)for we have sinned against you.
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.
Job 33:27-28
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27 He sings before men and says:
‘I (A)sinned and perverted what was right,
and it was not repaid to me.
28 He has redeemed my (B)soul from going down (C)into the pit,
and my life shall (D)look upon the light.’
Leviticus 26:40-42
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40 “But if (A)they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they (B)committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their (C)uncircumcised heart is (D)humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will (E)remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will (F)remember the land.
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