Matthew 3:2

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Summary

Matthew 3:2

And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Repent

General references

Luke 1:16

Luke 9:2

Bible References

Repent

From that time Jesus continued to preach and say, "Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is near."

Then He began to censure the cities in which His many, many wonder-works had been done, because they did not repent.

The men of Nineveh will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for they turned to the message preached by Jonah, and there is more than Jonah here!

And he answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go.

John the Baptizer appeared in the desert and was preaching a baptism conditioned on repentance to obtain the forgiveness of sins.

So they went out and preached that men should repent,

By no means, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.

But he pleaded, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, they would repent.'

and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem

Peter said to them, "You must repent -- and, as an expression of it, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ -- that you may have your sins forgiven; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

So now repent and turn to Him, to have your sins wiped out, that times of revival may come from the presence of the Lord,

When they heard this, they had no answer to make, but gave God the glory, saying, "So God has given even the heathen the repentance that leads to life."

Though God overlooked those times of ignorance, He now commands all men everywhere to repent,

but constantly and earnestly I urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn with repentance to God and to have faith in our Lord Jesus.

but I began to preach first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem, and all over Judea, and then to the heathen, to repent and turn to God, and to live lives consistent with such repentance.

For the sorrow that comes in accordance with the will of God results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets, but the sorrow the world produces results in death.

With gentleness he must correct his opponents, for God might grant them repentance that would lead them to a full knowledge of the truth,

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

The Lord is not slow about His promise, in the sense in which some think of slowness, but He is really dealing patiently with you, because He is not willing for any to perish but for all to have an opportunity to repent?

So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent and do as you did at first, or else I will surely come and move your lampstand from its place -- if you do not repent.

General references

And he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God.

and then He sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to cure the sick.