Thematic Bible
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Condescension of God » Expostulates with backsliding israel
God's Call » The comes of God's word » Divine pleadings
It is for Christ, therefore, that I am an envoy, seeing that God makes his appeal through me. On Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.
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"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!
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But of Israel he said, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."
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Heart » Renewed
and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.
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The real Jew is the man who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, a spiritual, not a literal, thing. Such a man receives his praise not from men, but from God.
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You must adopt a new attitude of mind,
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Newness » Renewing yourself
I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship. You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.
You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. You must adopt a new attitude of mind, and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.
Repentance » Repenting
I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.
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Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,
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saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."
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So remember how far you have fallen, and repent and do as you did at first, or else I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.
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So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,
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So if we are God's children we ought not to imagine that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, wrought by human art and thought. While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,
In those days John the Baptist appeared, and preached in the desert of Judea. "Repent!" he said, "for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!"
Repentance » The reward for repenting
Repentance » Commanded to all by God
While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,
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