Zechariah 1:4
Do not be like your fathers! The former prophets declared: 'Jehovah of Hosts said, I implore you, return from your evil ways, and from your wicked activities! But they did not listen, they paid no attention to me,' said Jehovah.
Psalm 78:8
They should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
Jehovah the God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his prophets because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place.
Psalm 106:6-7
We have sinned like our fathers! We have committed iniquity and have behaved wickedly.
Isaiah 1:16-19
Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.
Jeremiah 35:15
I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again. They said: Turn from your evil ways, do what is right, and do not follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. However, you refused to listen to me or obey me.
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: 'As I am alive! Declares the Lord Jehovah. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Only that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'
Zechariah 1:3
Tell them, Jehovah of Hosts has said: Jehovah of Hosts says return to me and I will return to you.
2 Chronicles 24:19-22
However he still sent prophets who warned them to turn back to him. The people refused to listen.
2 Chronicles 29:6-10
Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what Jehovah our God considered evil. They deserted him. They turned away from Jehovah's tent and turned their backs on him.
2 Chronicles 30:7
Do not be like your ancestors and your relatives who were unfaithful to Jehovah the God of their ancestors. He made them something that shocks people, as you have seen.
2 Chronicles 34:21
On behalf of those who are left in Israel and Judah and me, ask Jehovah about the words in this book that was found. Jehovah's fierce anger has been poured on us because our ancestors did not obey the word of Jehovah by doing everything written in this book.
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners. Because of our sins, the kings of the lands captured us. We were given to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
Nehemiah 9:16
But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and paid no attention to your orders.
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.
Nehemiah 9:30
You put up with them for years. You admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they did not listen. So you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
Isaiah 30:9-11
These people are rebellious and deceitful children. They refuse to listen to Jehovah's Law.
Isaiah 31:6
Return you people of Israel, return to the one whom you have so violently rebelled against.
Jeremiah 3:12
Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
Jehovah says: Stand by the way [of life] and see and ask for the ancient paths. Walk in the good way and you will find rest. But you said: We will not walk in it!
Jeremiah 7:3-7
Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Amend (make right) your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.
Jeremiah 11:6-8
Jehovah said to me: Go to the cities of Judah and to the streets of Jerusalem. Proclaim my message there and tell the people: 'Listen to the terms of the covenant and obey them.'
Jeremiah 13:9-10
Jeremiah, I will use Babylon to destroy the pride of the people of Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:16-18
Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.
Jeremiah 17:19-23
Jehovah said to me: Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 18:11
Now say to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem, This is what Jehovah says: 'I am going to prepare a disaster and make a plot against you. Turn from your evil ways, change your lives, and do good.'
Jeremiah 25:3-7
Jehovah continued to speak his word to me for twenty-three years. This covered the time from when Josiah, son of Amon, was in his thirteenth year as king of Judah until today. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Jeremiah 26:5
You are to pay attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I kept sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said.
Jeremiah 36:2-10
Take a scroll, and write on it everything that I have dictated to you about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations from the time I spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
Jeremiah 36:23-24
As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a scribe's knife and throw them into the fire in the fireplace. He did this until the whole scroll was burned up.
Jeremiah 44:4-5
I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.
Jeremiah 44:16
We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 3:7-9
But the people of Israel will refuse to listen to you because they refuse to listen to me. All the people of Israel are very stubborn and hardheaded.
Ezekiel 18:14-17
Now suppose this son has a son. The son sees all the sins that his father does. He is afraid, so he does not do such things.
Ezekiel 18:30-32
That is why I will judge each of you by what you have done, people of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah. Change the way you think and act. (Repent!) Turn away from all the rebellious things that you have done so that you will not fall into sin.
Hosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Amos 5:13-15
The prudent will keep silent for it is an evil time.
Amos 5:24
Justice should roll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Micah 2:6
Do not prophesy to me. They prophesy. But they will not prophesy these things.
Zechariah 7:11-13
They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Matthew 3:8-10
Bear fruit worthy of repentance!
Acts 3:19
Repent therefore, and turn around, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times (seasons) of refreshing shall come from the presence of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 18:18, 19)
Acts 7:51-52
You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.
Acts 26:20
I preached first to Damascus, and to Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the people of the nations, that they should repent and turn to God, and prove their repentance by deeds.
1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
They killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They did not please God and are contrary to all men.
1 Peter 1:18
Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,