Luke 15:18
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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.
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Lamentations 3:40
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40 Let us test and examine our ways,
(A)and return to the Lord!
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 18:13
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13 But the tax collector, (A)standing far off, (B)would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but (C)beat his breast, saying, ‘God, (D)be merciful to me, a sinner!’
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Luke 15:21
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21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. (A)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 50:4-5
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4 (A)“In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, (B)the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, (C)weeping as they come, and they (D)shall seek the Lord their God. 5 (E)They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, (F)saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an (G)everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’
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Psalm 51:3-5
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3 (A)For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
4 (B)Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil (C)in your sight,
(D)so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, (E)I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Hosea 2:6-7
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6 Therefore (A)I will hedge up her[a] way with thorns,
and (B)I will build a wall against her,
so that she cannot find her paths.
7 She shall pursue her lovers
but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
but shall not find them.
(C)Then she shall say,
‘I will go and return to (D)my first husband,
(E)for it was better for me then than now.’
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- Hosea 2:6 Hebrew your
Jeremiah 3:19
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19 “‘I said,
How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would (A)call me, My Father,
and would not turn from following me.
Psalm 32:3-5
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3 For when I kept silent, my (A)bones wasted away
through my (B)groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your (C)hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah
5 I (D)acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I (E)will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
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- Psalm 32:4 Hebrew my vitality was changed
Matthew 6:14
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14 (A)For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
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Matthew 6:9
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9 (A)Pray then like this:
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- Matthew 6:9 Or Let your name be kept holy, or Let your name be treated with reverence
Matthew 3:6
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6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, (A)confessing their sins.
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Jeremiah 31:20
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20 (A)Is Ephraim my dear son?
(B)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
(C)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 31:6-9
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6 For there shall be a day when watchmen will call
in (A)the hill country of Ephraim:
(B)‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.’”
7 For thus says the Lord:
(C)“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for (D)the chief of the nations;
proclaim, give praise, and say,
(E)‘O Lord, save your people,
the remnant of Israel.’
8 Behold, I will bring them (F)from the north country
and (G)gather them from (H)the farthest parts of the earth,
among them (I)the blind and the lame,
the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together;
a great company, they shall return here.
9 (J)With weeping they shall come,
(K)and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them (L)walk by brooks of water,
(M)in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for (N)I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is (O)my firstborn.
Isaiah 63:16
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16 For (A)you are our Father,
though Abraham does not know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
(B)our Redeemer from of old is your name.
Proverbs 23:13
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Psalm 116:3-7
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3 (A)The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
4 Then (B)I called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
5 (C)Gracious is the Lord, and (D)righteous;
our God is (E)merciful.
6 The Lord preserves (F)the simple;
when (G)I was brought low, he saved me.
7 Return, O my soul, to your (H)rest;
for the Lord has (I)dealt bountifully with you.
Psalm 25:11
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Job 36:8-10
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8 And if they are (A)bound in chains
and caught in the cords of affliction,
9 then he declares to them their work
and their transgressions, that they are (B)behaving arrogantly.
10 He (C)opens their ears to instruction
and commands that they (D)return from iniquity.
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.’
2 Chronicles 33:19
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19 And his prayer, and how (A)God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites (B)on which he built high places and set up the (C)Asherim and the images, before (D)he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.[a]
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- 2 Chronicles 33:19 One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts of Hozai
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
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12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God (A)and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him, and (B)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. (C)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
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2 Kings 7:3-4
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The Syrians Flee
3 Now there were four men who were lepers[a] (A)at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”
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- 2 Kings 7:3 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
1 Kings 20:30-31
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30 And the rest fled into the city of (A)Aphek, and the wall fell upon 27,000 men who were left.
Ben-hadad also fled and entered (B)an inner chamber in the city. 31 And his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us (C)put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
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