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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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;

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.

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,

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.

His thoughts

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

General references

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.

I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.