1 Kings 8:47
47yet aif they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, b‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’Job 42:6
6therefore I despise myself,and repent ▼
▼Or and am comforted
in ddust and ashes.”Ezekiel 18:30-32
30“Therefore eI will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. fRepent and turn from all your transgressions, glest iniquity be your ruin. ▼▼Or lest iniquity be your stumbling block
31 iCast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and jmake yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! kWhy will you die, O house of Israel? 32 lFor I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; mso turn, and live.” Matthew 4:17
17 nFrom that time Jesus began to preach, saying, o“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”Matthew 11:20
Woe to Unrepentant Cities
20 pThen he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.Matthew 12:41
41 qThe men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and rcondemn it, for sthey repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, tsomething greater than Jonah is here.Matthew 21:29-32
29And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he uchanged his mind and went. 30And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. 31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, vthe tax collectors and wthe prostitutes go into xthe kingdom of God before you. 32For John came to you yin the way of righteousness, and zyou did not believe him, but aathe tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward abchange your minds and believe him.
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