Proverbs 1:23

Wisdom invites repentance, promising to pour out her spirit and make her words known. It matters because the call to turn is matched with a gracious offer of help.

Cross-references · 23

• 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,
• Ezek 33:11Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Ezek 18:27–30Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Acts 2:36–38“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
• Joel 2:28“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Isa 32:15Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
• Prov 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
• Luke 11:13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
• Rev 3:16–19So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
• Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
• Isa 55:1–3“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
• Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
• John 7:36–37What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?”
• Prov 10:17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
• Isa 45:8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
• Ps 145:1A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
• Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• Jer 3:14“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
• Hos 14:1Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
• Prov 1:30They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
• Prov 6:23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
• Prov 1:25but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

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