Repentance

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

From that time began Jesus to proclaim and to say, `Reform ye, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens.'

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

and saying--`Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place--if thou mayest not reform;

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

And rend your heart, and not your garments, And turn back unto Jehovah your God, For gracious and merciful <FI>is<Fi> He, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, And He hath repented concerning the evil.

For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.

in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, — read the full passage →

for in your turning back unto Jehovah, your brethren and your sons have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land, for gracious and merciful <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah your God, and He doth not turn aside the face from you, if ye turn back unto Him.'

testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

And the wicked--when he turneth back From all his sins that he hath done, And he hath kept all My statutes, And hath done judgment and righteousness, He doth surely live, he doth not die. — read the full passage →

I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

`Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

The sacrifices of God <FI>are<Fi> a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation--to remission of sins,

And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill: — read the full passage →

And having gone forth they were preaching that <FI>men<Fi> might reform,

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,

And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead; — read the full passage →

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, — read the full passage →

`And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: — read the full passage →

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us; — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last--to believe him.

For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

For mine iniquity I declare, I am sorry for my sin.

Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

Therefore do I loathe <FI>it<Fi> , And I have repented on dust and ashes.

And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe--that is, in the Christ--Jesus;'

and Jehovah repenteth of the evil which He hath spoken of doing to His people.

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying--This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

`I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

and he saw two boats standing beside the lake, and the fishers, having gone away from them, were washing the nets,

And God seeth their works, that they have turned back from their evil way, and God repenteth of the evil that He spake of doing to them, and he hath not done <FI>it<Fi> .

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation--to remission of sins,

He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

and lo, they were bringing to him a paralytic, laid upon a couch, and Jesus having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, `Be of good courage, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

And Peter and John were going up at the same time to the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth <FI>hour<Fi> , — read the full passage →

Sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom Jaladah his Aramaean concubine bare, with Machir father of Gilead.

And sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of the house of their fathers, <FI>even<Fi> of Tola, mighty of valour in their generations: their number in the days of David <FI>is<Fi> twenty and two thousand and six hundred.

make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father--Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

And the Tempter having come to him said, `If Son thou art of God--speak that these stones may become loaves.'

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.' — read the full passage →

Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, O house of Israel? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Turn ye back, yea, turn yourselves back, From all your transgressions, And iniquity is not to you for a stumbling-block, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

I have blotted out, as <FI>by<Fi> a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as <FI>by<Fi> a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.

`Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

If so be they hearken, and turn back each from his evil way, then I have repented concerning the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, because of the evil of their doings.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and having fallen away, again to renew <FI>them<Fi> to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.

John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near, — read the full passage →

And after the delivering up of John, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the reign of God, — read the full passage →

Say unto them, I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I delight not in the death of the wicked, But--in the turning of the wicked from his way, And he hath lived, Turn back, turn back, from your evil ways, Yea, why do ye die, O house of Israel?

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

`Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah, and lo, a greater than Jonah here!

As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --

for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. — read the full passage →

and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden <FI>is<Fi> the land before it, And after it a wilderness--a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,

We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.