Acts 26:20

Paul preached repentance and turning to God, with lives that prove it, first to Jews then to Gentiles across the region.

Cross-references · 40

• Matt 3:8Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• Acts 3:19“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
• Acts 2:38Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Tim 2:25–26in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• Matt 9:13But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
• Rev 2:5Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
• Luke 19:8–9Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
• 2 Pet 1:5–8Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
• 1 Pet 2:9–12But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Titus 2:2–13that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• 2 Cor 7:10For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
• Eph 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• 1 Pet 4:2–5that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• 1 Pet 1:14–16as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• Mark 6:12They went out and preached that people should repent.
• Luke 15:7I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
• Acts 20:21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
• Luke 13:5I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
• Matt 21:30–32He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but he didn’t go.
• 1 Th 1:9For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
• Eph 6:1–9Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• Luke 24:46–47He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
• Acts 22:17–22“When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
• Acts 14:15–21“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
• Rom 11:18–20don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
• Acts 9:19–29He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.
• Matt 4:17From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• Acts 9:35All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
• Luke 13:3I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
• Acts 11:18When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
• 2 Cor 3:16But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
• Luke 15:10Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
• Hos 12:6Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
• Acts 26:17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• Ezek 18:30–32“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Rom 2:4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
• Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
• Luke 1:16He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.

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