Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
- KJV Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
- BSB Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.
- NASB Therefore, repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intention of your heart will be forgiven you.
- NLT Repent of your wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive your evil thoughts,
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Quick answer
Peter called Simon to repent of his wickedness and pray for forgiveness. Even grave sin can be forgiven through genuine repentance.
Overview
Peter urges Simon to repent and seek God's pardon for the evil intent of his heart. This call holds out hope of forgiveness, showing that the gospel offers mercy to repentant sinners (Acts 3:19). Yet the conditional 'if perhaps' presses Simon to take his sin and need for grace seriously.
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- 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,
- Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Dan 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
- Luke 11:9–13“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
- 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?
- Acts 9:11The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
- Matt 7:7–8“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
- Acts 17:30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
- Acts 8:20But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
- Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- Deut 4:29–30But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- 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.
- Jonah 3:9Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
- 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,
- Rev 2:21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
- 1 Kgs 8:47–48yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
- Joel 2:13–14Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
- Rev 3:17–18Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
- Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- Jonah 1:6So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
- 2 Chr 33:12–13When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
- Amos 5:6Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
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