Luke 15:18
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18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned(A) against heaven and against you.
Lamentations 3:40
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Luke 15:21
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21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.(A) I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
1 John 1:8-10
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8 If we claim to be without sin,(A) we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.(B) 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins(C) and purify us from all unrighteousness.(D) 10 If we claim we have not sinned,(E) we make him out to be a liar(F) and his word is not in us.(G)
Luke 18:13
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13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast(A) and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’(B)
Psalm 51:3-5
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Jeremiah 50:4-5
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4 “In those days, at that time,”
declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together(A)
will go in tears(B) to seek(C) the Lord their God.
5 They will ask the way(D) to Zion
and turn their faces toward it.
They will come(E) and bind themselves to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant(F)
that will not be forgotten.
Matthew 6:14
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14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.(A)
Hosea 2:6-7
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6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.(A)
7 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
she will look for them but not find them.(B)
Then she will say,
‘I will go back to my husband(C) as at first,(D)
for then I was better off(E) than now.’
Jeremiah 3:19
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19 “I myself said,
Psalm 32:3-5
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Footnotes
- Psalm 32:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 7.
Psalm 25:11
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Matthew 6:9
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9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father(A) in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
Matthew 3:6
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6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized(A) by him in the Jordan River.
Jeremiah 31:20
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Isaiah 63:16
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Proverbs 23:13
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Saying 13
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
Hosea 14:1-3
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Repentance to Bring Blessing
14 [a]Return,(A) Israel, to the Lord your God.
Your sins(B) have been your downfall!(C)
2 Take words with you
and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
“Forgive(D) all our sins
and receive us graciously,(E)
that we may offer the fruit of our lips.[b](F)
3 Assyria cannot save us;(G)
we will not mount warhorses.(H)
We will never again say ‘Our gods’(I)
to what our own hands have made,(J)
for in you the fatherless(K) find compassion.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:1 In Hebrew texts 14:1-9 is numbered 14:2-10.
- Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls
Jeremiah 31:6-9
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6 There will be a day when watchmen(A) cry out
on the hills of Ephraim,
‘Come, let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.’”(B)
7 This is what the Lord says:
“Sing(C) with joy for Jacob;
shout for the foremost(D) of the nations.
Make your praises heard, and say,
‘Lord, save(E) your people,
the remnant(F) of Israel.’
8 See, I will bring them from the land of the north(G)
and gather(H) them from the ends of the earth.
Among them will be the blind(I) and the lame,(J)
expectant mothers and women in labor;
a great throng will return.
9 They will come with weeping;(K)
they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead(L) them beside streams of water(M)
on a level(N) path where they will not stumble,
because I am Israel’s father,(O)
and Ephraim is my firstborn son.
Psalm 116:3-7
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3 The cords of death(A) entangled me,
the anguish of the grave came over me;
I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
4 Then I called on the name(B) of the Lord:
“Lord, save me!(C)”
2 Chronicles 33:19
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19 His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled(A) himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.[a](B)
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts of Hozai
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
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12 In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled(A) himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. 13 And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.
2 Kings 7:3-4
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The Siege Lifted
3 Now there were four men with leprosy[a](A) at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 7:3 The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verse 8.
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