Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly.
Isaiah 44:22
I've wiped away your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me; because I've redeemed you.
Proverbs 28:13
Whoever hides his transgressions will not succeed, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.
Isaiah 43:25
"I, I am the one who blots out your transgression for my own sake, and I'll remember your sins no more.
Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw that human evil was growing more and more throughout the earth, with every inclination of people's thoughts becoming only evil on a continuous basis.
Exodus 34:6-7
The LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and filled with gracious love and truth.
Numbers 14:18-19
"The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he won't acquit the guilty. He recalls the iniquity of fathers to the third and fourth generation.'
2 Chronicles 7:14
when my people humble themselves the ones who are called by my name and pray, seek me, and turn away from their evil practices, I myself will listen from heaven, I will pardon their sins, and I will restore their land.
Psalm 51:1
Have mercy, God, according to your gracious love, according to your unlimited compassion, erase my transgressions.
Psalm 66:18
Were I to cherish iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not listen to me.
Psalm 130:7
Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is gracious love, along with abundant redemption.
Isaiah 1:16-18
"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.
Isaiah 32:7
Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.
Isaiah 40:2
"Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her heavy service has been completed, that her penalty has been paid, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins."
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may collapse and the hills may reel, but my gracious love will not depart from you, neither will my covenant of peace totter," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet rush to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction, and violence are in their paths.
Jeremiah 3:3
This is why the rain has been withheld and there are no spring showers. Yet you have a harlot's look and you refuse to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 3:12-13
Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say, "Return, unfaithful Israel,' declares the LORD. "I won't look on you in anger, for I am gracious,' declares the LORD. "I won't remain angry forever.
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash your evil from your heart so that you may be delivered. How long will you harbor evil schemes within you?
Jeremiah 8:4-6
"You are to say to them, "This is what the LORD says: "Will a person fall down and then not get up? Will someone turn away and then not turn back again?
Ezekiel 3:18-19
"So when I say to a wicked person, "You're about to die,' if you don't warn or instruct that wicked person that his behavior is wicked so he can live, that wicked person will die in his sin, but I'll hold you responsible for his death.
Ezekiel 18:21-23
But if the wicked person turns from all his sins, which he did and keeps my statutes, then he'll live. He won't die.
Ezekiel 18:27-32
When a wicked person quits his wicked behavior and does what's just and right, he'll be enabled to live.
Ezekiel 33:11
"Tell them, "As certainly as I'm alive and living,' declares the Lord GOD, "I receive no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Instead, my pleasure is that the wicked repent from their behavior and live. Turn back! Turn back, all of you, from your wicked behavior! Why do you have to die, you house of Israel?'"
Ezekiel 33:14-16
"If I tell the wicked person that he will certainly die, if he turns from his sin and acts with justice and righteousness,
Hosea 14:1-2
"Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have fallen due to your own iniquity.
Jonah 3:10
God took note of what they did that they turned from their evil ways. Because God relented concerning the trouble about which he had warned them, he did not carry it out.
Zechariah 8:17
don't plot evil in your heart against a neighbor, and don't tolerate false testimonies, because I hate all these things,' declares the LORD."
Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this means: "I want mercy and not sacrifice,' because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."
Matthew 15:18-19
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is those things that make a person unclean.
Matthew 23:25-26
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but on the inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Mark 7:21
because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,
Mark 7:23
All these things come from inside and make a person unclean."
Luke 7:47
So I'm telling you that her sins, as many as they are, have been forgiven, and that's why she has shown such great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little."
Luke 11:39-40
But the Lord told him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of greed and evil.
Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you that there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents."
Luke 15:24
Because my son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.
Acts 3:19
Therefore, repent and turn to him to have your sins blotted out,
Acts 8:21-22
You have no part or share in what we're saying, because your heart isn't right with God.
Acts 26:20
Instead, I first told the people in Damascus and Jerusalem, then all the people in Judea and after that the gentiles to repent, turn to God, and perform deeds that are consistent with such repentance.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
Ephesians 1:6-8
so that we would praise his glorious grace that he gave us in the Beloved One.
1 Timothy 1:15-16
This is a trustworthy saying that deserves complete acceptance: To this world Messiah came, sinful people to reclaim.
James 1:15
When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.
James 4:8-10
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Romans 5:16-21
Nor can the free gift be compared to what came through the man who sinned. For the sentence that followed one man's offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift brought justification, even after many offenses.