Isaiah 55:7

Invitation To True Rewards

⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near: ⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him. ⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

Be Merciful

Forgive Them

Have Mercy

Return to the Lord

Righteous Man

Show Mercy

To the Lord

Turn to the Lord

Jehovah

Sin

Isaiah 44:22

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

Proverbs 28:13

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

Isaiah 43:25

I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

Genesis 6:5

And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

Exodus 34:6-7

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

Numbers 14:18-19

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

Psalm 51:1

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

Psalm 66:18

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

Isaiah 1:16-18

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Isaiah 32:7

The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

Isaiah 40:2

Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

Jeremiah 3:3

So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

Jeremiah 3:12-13

Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

Jeremiah 8:4-6

Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?

Ezekiel 3:18-19

When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

Ezekiel 18:21-23

But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.

Ezekiel 18:27-32

Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:14-16

And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right;

Hosea 14:1-2

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

Jonah 3:10

And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.

Zechariah 8:17

Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

Matthew 9:13

But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

Matthew 15:18-19

But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.

Matthew 23:25-26

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

Mark 7:21

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

Mark 7:23

All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

Luke 7:47

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

Luke 11:39-40

And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

Luke 15:10

Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.

Luke 15:24

For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

Acts 3:19

So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

Acts 8:21-22

You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.

Acts 26:20

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

Ephesians 1:6-8

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

1 Timothy 1:15-16

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

James 1:15

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

James 4:8-10

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

Romans 5:16-21

And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.