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 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
• Ezek 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
• Ezek 18:27–30But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
• Acts 2:36–38Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”
• Joel 2:28And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Isa 32:15until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
• Prov 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
• Luke 11:13So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
• Rev 3:16–19So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!
• Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
• Isa 55:1–3“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
• Acts 26:20First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
• John 7:36–37What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
• Prov 10:17Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
• Isa 45:8Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
• Ps 145:1A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.
• Prov 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
• Jer 3:14“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
• Hos 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• Prov 1:30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
• Prov 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
• Prov 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

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