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 yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

if my people who are called by my name 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 heal their land.

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.

"You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?

If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,'and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

"But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,

but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

His thoughts

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD."

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

And the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

General references

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.'

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