Isaiah 55:7

Invitation To True Rewards

⁶ Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
⁸ My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares Jehovah.

Be Merciful

Forgive Them

Have Mercy

Return to the Lord

Righteous Man

Show Mercy

To the Lord

Turn to the Lord

Jehovah

Sin

Isaiah 44:22

I have swept your sins away like a cloud. Come back to me! I am the one who saves you.

Proverbs 28:13

The man who covers his sins will not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them will have mercy.

Isaiah 43:25

I alone am the one who is going to wipe away your rebellious actions for my own sake. I will not remember your sins anymore.

Genesis 6:5

Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Exodus 34:6-7

Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.

Numbers 14:18-19

Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.

2 Chronicles 7:14

However, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, search for me, and turn from their evil ways, I will hear their prayer from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their country.

Psalm 51:1

([[Psalm of David] when the prophet Nathan came to him after David's adultery with Bathsheba:]) Have mercy on me, O God, in keeping with your loving-kindness. According to your unlimited compassion, wipe out my transgressions.

Psalm 66:18

If I had thought about doing anything sinful, Jehovah would not have listened to me.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel hope in Jehovah! For with Jehovah there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

Isaiah 1:16-18

Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.

Isaiah 32:7

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil. He devises wicked schemes to destroy the afflicted with slander, even though the needy one speaks what is right.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed. Her sin has been paid for and she has received double for all her sins from Jehovah's hand.

Isaiah 54:10

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says Jehovah. I have compassion on you.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways.

Jeremiah 3:3

Accordingly the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. Yet, you have the unashamed (conspicuous) (impudent) look of a prostitute, and you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 3:12-13

Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.

Jeremiah 4:14

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

Jeremiah 8:4-6

Say to them: 'This is what Jehovah says: When someone falls, he gets back up. When someone turns away from me, he returns.'

Ezekiel 3:18-19

When I tell a wicked man that he will surely die, but you do not warn him or speak out so that he can change his wicked way in order to save his life; that wicked man will die because of his sin. I will hold you responsible for his death.

Ezekiel 18:21-23

If the wicked man turns from all his sins and observes all my statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall live; he shall not die.

Ezekiel 18:27-32

When a wicked person turns away from the wicked things that he has done and does what is fair and right, he will live.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: 'As I am alive! Declares the Lord Jehovah. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Only that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'

Ezekiel 33:14-16

I may warn someone evil that he is going to die, but if he stops sinning and does what is right and good,

Hosea 14:1-2

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

Jonah 3:10

God saw their works! That they turned from their evil way. God turned back from the deed that he said he would do to them. He did not do it.

Zechariah 8:17

Let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor. Do not love a false oath (perjury): for all these are things that I hate, said Jehovah.

Matthew 9:13

You should learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I came, not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Matthew 15:18-19

That which comes out of the mouth, comes from the heart and makes a man unclean.

Matthew 23:25-26

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, yet the inside is full of extortion and excess.

Mark 7:21

It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

Mark 7:23

All these evil things come from within and defile the man.

Luke 7:47

She loved much! She has many sins and they are forgiven. When little is forgiven, little love is shown.

Luke 11:39-40

The Lord said: You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter. Yet your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Luke 15:10

I tell you, it is the same for the angels of God who rejoice over one sinner who repents.

Luke 15:24

My son was dead. Now he is alive. He was lost. Now he has been found. The feasting began.'

Acts 3:19

Repent therefore, and turn around, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times (seasons) of refreshing shall come from the presence of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 18:18, 19)

Acts 8:21-22

You have no part or share in this matter for your heart is not right in the sight of God.

Acts 26:20

I preached first to Damascus, and to Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the people of the nations, that they should repent and turn to God, and prove their repentance by deeds.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Ephesians 1:6-8

This is to the praise of the glory of his kindness, with which he freely honored us, the loved ones.

1 Timothy 1:15-16

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.

James 1:15

Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

James 4:8-10

Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic).

Romans 5:16-21

And there is a difference between God's gift (spiritual endowment) and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the guilty judgment; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of righteousness.