16 Bible Verses about Repentance, Nature Of
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how successful our arrival was among you, and how you renounc'd your idols to serve the living and true God,
cry'd out, "sirs, what are you going to do? we are but men as well as you, and we exhort you to renounce these vanities, and turn to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth and the sea, and all that they contain:
Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident. be afflicted, be mournful, and weep: let your mirth be converted to sadness, and your joy to vexation.read more.
humble your selves before the Lord, and he will raise you up.
For tho' I was sorry my letter gave you some uneasiness, I do not repent of it, perceiving, that the uneasiness you had from that letter, did not dwell upon your minds. now I rejoice, not at your uneasiness, but at your repentance which succeeded: for your sorrow was a religious sorrow, such as convinc'd you I had done you no wrong. for religious sorrow produces that salutary repentance, which we never regret: but worldly sorrow preys upon life.
but the Publican, who stood a good way lower, not daring to lift up even his eyes to heaven, only smote his breast, and said, O God, be merciful to me, who am a sinner.
at length coming to himself, how many, said he, does my father keep in pay, who have bread in abundance, whilst I am dying here with hunger? I will depart, and go to my father, and say to him, father, I have sinned against heaven, and against thee; I am no longer worthy to be called your son: treat me as one of your hir'd servants.
wherefore my opinion is not to disquiet the Gentile converts: but only to write to them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood.
but Zaccheus address'd himself to Jesus, and said, Lord, half my estate I give to the poor; and if I have wrong'd any man, I will give him four times the value.
but as for thee, I have pray'd that you faith may not fail. do you in return establish thy brethren.
and as the divine assistance accompany'd them, a great number of persons believed and became converts.
remonstrating both to Jews and Gentiles the advantages of a sincere repentance, and of believing
and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and partake of the inheritance of the saints, by believing on me."
first I warn'd the people of Damascus, of Jerusalem, of all Judea, and then the Gentiles, to repent, and turn to God, by acting suitably to their repentance.
Let your actions then show your repentance:
let your actions therefore show your repentance, and don't pretend to say within yourselves, "we have Abraham for our father:" for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Upon which the people asked him, what then shall we do? he answer'd them, let him that hath two coats give one to him that hath none; and let him that has plenty of provisions act in like manner. the Publicans likewise came to be baptized, and said to him, master, how are we to act?read more.
exact, said he, no more than what the law requires. the soldiers too made the same demand, how are we to act? he answer'd them, injure no man either by violence or by fraud, and be content with your pay.
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