Matthew 21:29
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29 And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he (A)changed his mind and went.
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Ezekiel 18:28-32
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28 Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
30 “Therefore (A)I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. (B)Repent and turn from all your transgressions, (C)lest iniquity be your ruin.[a] 31 (D)Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and (E)make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! (F)Why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 (G)For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; (H)so turn, and live.”
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- Ezekiel 18:30 Or lest iniquity be your stumbling block
Ephesians 4:17-19
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The New Life
17 Now this I say and (A)testify in the Lord, (B)that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, (C)in the futility of their minds. 18 They (D)are darkened in their understanding, (E)alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to (F)their hardness of heart. 19 They (G)have become callous and (H)have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
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Ephesians 2:1-13
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By Grace Through Faith
2 (A)And you were (B)dead in the trespasses and sins 2 (C)in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following (D)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in (E)the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in (F)the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body[a] and the mind, and (G)were by nature (H)children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.[b] 4 But[c] God, being (I)rich in mercy, (J)because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even (K)when we were dead in our trespasses, (L)made us alive together with Christ—(M)by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and (N)seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable (O)riches of his grace in (P)kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For (Q)by grace you have been saved (R)through faith. And this is (S)not your own doing; (T)it is the gift of God, 9 (U)not a result of works, (V)so that no one may boast. 10 For (W)we are his workmanship, (X)created in Christ Jesus (Y)for good works, (Z)which God prepared beforehand, (AA)that we should walk in them.
One in Christ
11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called (AB)the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember (AC)that you were at that time separated from Christ, (AD)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to (AE)the covenants of promise, (AF)having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were (AG)far off have been brought near (AH)by the blood of Christ.
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- Ephesians 2:3 Greek flesh
- Ephesians 2:3 Greek like the rest
- Ephesians 2:4 Or And
1 Corinthians 6:11
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11 And (A)such were some of you. But (B)you were washed, (C)you were sanctified, (D)you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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Luke 15:17-18
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17 “But (A)when he (B)came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, (C)I have sinned against (D)heaven and before you.
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Matthew 21:31
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31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, (A)the tax collectors and (B)the prostitutes go into (C)the kingdom of God before you.
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Matthew 3:2-8
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2 (A)“Repent, for (B)the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”[a] 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,
(C)“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
(D)‘Prepare[b] the way of the Lord;
make his paths straight.’”
4 Now John wore (E)a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was (F)locusts and (G)wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, 6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, (H)confessing their sins.
7 But when he saw many of (I)the Pharisees and (J)Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, (K)“You brood of (L)vipers! Who warned you to flee from (M)the wrath to come? 8 Bear fruit (N)in keeping with repentance.
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- Matthew 3:2 Or the kingdom of heaven has come near
- Matthew 3:3 Or crying: Prepare in the wilderness
Jonah 3:8-10
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8 but let man and (A)beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. (B)Let everyone turn from his evil way and from (C)the violence that is in his hands. 9 (D)Who knows? God may turn and relent (E)and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did, (F)how they turned from their evil way, (G)God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
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Jonah 3:2
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2 “Arise, go to (A)Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”
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Daniel 4:34-37
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Nebuchadnezzar Restored
34 (A)At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and (B)my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored (C)him who lives forever,
(D)for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
and (E)his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
35 (F)all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and (G)he does according to his will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth;
(H)and none can stay his hand
or (I)say to him, “What have you done?”
36 At the same time (J)my reason returned to me, and for (K)the glory of my kingdom, (L)my majesty and splendor returned to me. (M)My counselors and (N)my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was (O)added to me. 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, (P)praise and extol and honor the (Q)King of heaven, (R)for all his works are right and his ways are just; and (S)those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
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Jeremiah 44:16
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16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, (A)we will not listen to you.
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Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 (A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
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.
Isaiah 1:16-19
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16 (A)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(B)cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
(C)seek justice,
correct oppression;
(D)bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow's cause.
18 “Come now, (E)let us reason[a] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as (F)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
19 (G)If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land;
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- Isaiah 1:18 Or dispute
2 Chronicles 33:10-19
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Manasseh's Repentance
10 The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. 11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and (B)bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God (C)and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him, and (D)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. (E)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
14 Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of (F)Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into (G)the Fish Gate, and carried it around (H)Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. 15 And (I)he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. 16 He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. 17 (J)Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and (K)his prayer to his God, and the words of (L)the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the (M)Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 19 And his prayer, and how (N)God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites (O)on which he built high places and set up the (P)Asherim and the images, before (Q)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
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