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, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.

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.

Whoever hides his transgressions will not succeed, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.

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.

"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?

"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.

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.

"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?'"

"Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have fallen due to your own iniquity.

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.

Go and learn what this means: "I want mercy and not sacrifice,' because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

In the same way, I tell you that there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents."

Therefore, repent and turn to him to have your sins blotted out,

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.

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,

Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

His thoughts

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.

Were I to cherish iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not listen to me.

Jerusalem, wash your evil from your heart so that you may be delivered. How long will you harbor evil schemes within you?

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."

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is those things that make a person unclean.

"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.

because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

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.

You have no part or share in what we're saying, because your heart isn't right with God.

When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

General references

If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the best that the land produces;

So go into the roads leading out of town and invite as many people as you can find to the wedding.'

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