Jer 3:4-7, 13, Mic 6:9, Mat 21:28-31, Act 3:19, 22-23, 1Pe 4:2-3 | ESV | STEP | Have you not just now called to me, My father , you are the friend of my youth

4 Have you not just now ^acalled to me,
‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
5 ^bwill he be angry forever,
will he be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.”

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

6 The Lord said to me in the days of ^cKing Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, ^dhow she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there ^eplayed the whore? 7 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous ^fsister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 3:13

13 ^gOnly acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under ^hevery green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,

declares the Lord.

Micah 6:9

Destruction of the Wicked

9 The voice of the Lord cries to the city—
and it is sound wisdom to fear ⁱyour name:
“Hear of ^jthe rod and of him who appointed it! ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}

Matthew 21:28-31

The Parable of the Two Sons

28 ^l“What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in ^mthe vineyard today.’ 29 And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he ⁿchanged his mind and went. 30 And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, ^othe tax collectors and ^pthe prostitutes go into ^qthe kingdom of God before you.

Acts 3:19

19 ^rRepent therefore, and ^sturn back, that ^tyour sins may be blotted out,

Acts 3:22-23

22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you ^ua prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen ^vto him in whatever he tells you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet ^wshall be destroyed from the people.’

1 Peter 4:2-3

2 ^xso as to live for ^ythe rest of the time in the flesh ^zno longer for human passions but ^aafor the will of God. 3 For the time that is past ^absuffices ^acfor doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.