PENITENT

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• Leviticus 26:40

  “‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

• Leviticus 26:41

  I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

• Leviticus 26:42

  then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

• Numbers 5:6

  “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;

• Numbers 5:7

  then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.

• Deuteronomy 4:29

  But 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.

• Deuteronomy 4:30

  When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.

• Deuteronomy 4:31

  For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

• Deuteronomy 5:29

  Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

• Deuteronomy 30:1

  It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,

• Deuteronomy 30:2

  and return to Yahweh your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

• Deuteronomy 30:3

  that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

• Deuteronomy 30:4

  If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.

• Deuteronomy 30:5

  Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.

• Deuteronomy 30:6

  Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

• Deuteronomy 30:7

  Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

• Deuteronomy 30:8

  You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.

• Deuteronomy 30:9

  Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

• Deuteronomy 30:10

  if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

• 2 Kings 22:19

  because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

• 1 Chronicles 28:9

  You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

• Job 22:23

  If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

• Job 22:24

  Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

• Job 22:25

  The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

• Job 22:26

  For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

• Job 22:27

  You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

• Job 22:28

  You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

• Job 22:29

  When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

• Job 23:6

  Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

• Job 33:27

  He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

• Job 33:28

  He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’

• Psalms 6:8

  Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

• Psalms 6:9

  Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

• Psalms 9:10

  Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

• Psalms 22:26

  The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

• Psalms 24:3

  Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

• Psalms 24:4

  He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

• Psalms 24:5

  He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

• Psalms 24:6

  This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face — even Jacob. Selah.

• Psalms 32:5

  I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

• Psalms 32:6

  For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

• Psalms 34:18

  Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

• Psalms 51:17

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

• Psalms 70:4

  Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

• Psalms 90:14

  Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

• Psalms 90:15

  Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

• Psalms 145:18

  Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

• Psalms 145:19

  He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

• Psalms 147:3

  He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

• Isaiah 27:5

  Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

• Ezekiel 18:21

  “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

• Ezekiel 18:22

  None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

• Ezekiel 18:23

  Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

• Ezekiel 33:10

  You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

• Ezekiel 33:11

  Tell 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?

• Ezekiel 33:12

  You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

• Ezekiel 33:13

  When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

• Ezekiel 33:14

  Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

• Ezekiel 33:15

  if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

• Ezekiel 33:16

  None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

• Matthew 5:4

  Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

• Matthew 6:14

  “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

• Matthew 6:15

  But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

• Matthew 7:7

  “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

• Matthew 7:8

  For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

• Matthew 7:9

  Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

• Matthew 7:10

  Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

• Matthew 7:11

  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

• Matthew 11:28

  “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

• Matthew 11:29

  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

• Matthew 11:30

  For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

• Matthew 12:20

  He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

• Matthew 12:31

  Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

• Matthew 18:11

  For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

• Matthew 18:12

  “What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

• Matthew 18:13

  If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

• Matthew 18:14

  Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

• Luke 4:18

  “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

• Luke 6:37

  Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

• Luke 11:9

  “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.

• Luke 11:10

  For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

• Luke 11:11

  “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

• Luke 11:12

  Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

• Luke 11:13

  If 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?”

• Luke 12:10

  Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

• Luke 15:4

  “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

• Luke 15:5

  When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

• Luke 15:6

  When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

• Luke 15:7

  I 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.

• Luke 15:8

  Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

• Luke 15:9

  When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

• Luke 15:10

  Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

• Luke 15:11

  He said, “A certain man had two sons.

• Luke 15:12

  The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

• Luke 15:13

  Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

• Luke 15:14

  When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

• Luke 15:15

  He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• Luke 15:16

  He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

• Luke 15:17

  But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

• Luke 15:18

  I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

• Luke 15:19

  I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’

• Luke 15:20

  “He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

• Luke 15:21

  The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

• Luke 15:22

  “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

• Luke 15:23

  Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

• Luke 15:24

  for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.

• Luke 15:25

  “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

• Luke 15:26

  He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

• Luke 15:27

  He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

• Luke 15:28

  But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

• Luke 15:29

  But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

• Luke 15:30

  But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

• Luke 15:31

  “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

• Luke 15:32

  But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

• Luke 18:10

  “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

• Luke 18:11

  The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

• Luke 18:12

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• Luke 18:13

  But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

• Luke 18:14

  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

• Luke 19:10

  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

• John 6:37

  All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

• John 10:9

  I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

• Acts 13:38

  Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

• Acts 13:39

  and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

• Romans 10:9

  that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

• Romans 10:10

  For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

• Romans 10:11

  For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

• Romans 10:12

  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

• Romans 10:13

  For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

• 1 John 1:9

  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.