Isaiah 55:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

The wicked

His thoughts

General references

Isaiah 1:19

Matthew 22:9

Luke 5:32

Bible References

The wicked

Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

Moreover thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall he turn away, and not return?

When I say to a wicked man, Thou shall surely die, and thou give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked man from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at

But if a wicked man 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.

Say to them, As I live, says lord LORD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

But after going, learn what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners for repentance.

Thus I say to you, there becomes joy in the presence of the agents of God over one sinner who repents.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted in order to wipe away your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.

His thoughts

And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, LORD will not hear.

And let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no FALSE oath. For all these are things that I hate, says LORD.

But the things coming out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and those things defile the man.

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness.

For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness.

There is no part nor lot for thee in this matter, for thy heart is not straight in the sight of God.

Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.

General references

If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.

Go ye therefore to the crossings of the ways, and as many as ye may find, call to the wedding festivities.

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.