Acts 20:21

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

I told everyone—Jewish and non-Jewish people—to change and turn to God. I told them all to believe in our Lord Jesus.

Cross References

Acts 2:38

Peter said to them, “Change your hearts and lives and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ. Then God will forgive your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 11:18

When the Jewish believers heard this, they stopped arguing. They praised God and said, “So God is also allowing even those who are not Jews to change their hearts so that they can have the life he gives!”

Acts 20:24

I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I finish my work. I want to finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.

Luke 13:3

No, they were not. But if you don’t decide now to change your lives, you will all be destroyed like those people!

2 Corinthians 7:10

The kind of sorrow God wants makes people decide to change their lives. This leads them to salvation, and we cannot be sorry for that. But the kind of sorrow the world has will bring death.

Romans 10:9

If you openly say, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from death, you will be saved.

Acts 26:18

You will make them able to understand the truth. They will turn away from darkness to the light. They will turn away from the power of Satan, and they will turn to God. Then their sins can be forgiven, and they can be given a place among God’s people—those who have been made holy by believing in me.’”

Luke 24:47

You saw these things happen—you are witnesses. You must go and tell people that they must change and turn to God, which will bring them his forgiveness. You must start from Jerusalem and tell this message in my name to the people of all nations.

1 John 5:5

So who wins against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

Acts 26:20

I began telling people to change their hearts and lives and turn back to God. And I told them to do what would show that they had really changed. I went first to people in Damascus. Then I went to Jerusalem and to every part of Judea and told the people there. I also went to the non-Jewish people.

1 John 5:1

The people who believe that Jesus is the Messiah are God’s children. Anyone who loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.

Philemon 1:5

I thank God because I hear about the love you have for all of God’s holy people and the faith you have in the Lord Jesus.

Ephesians 1:15

That is why I always remember you in my prayers and thank God for you. I have done this ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God’s people.

Galatians 2:20

So I am not the one living now—it is Christ living in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God. He is the one who loved me and gave himself to save me.

Romans 5:1

We have been made right with God because of our faith. So we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 4:24

They were also written for us. God will also accept us because we believe. We believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from death.

Romans 1:16

I am proud of the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes—to save the Jews first, and now to save those who are not Jews.

Acts 17:30

In the past people did not understand God, and he overlooked this. But now he is telling everyone in the world to change and turn to him.

Mark 6:12

The apostles left and went to other places. They talked to the people and told them to change their hearts and lives.

Mark 1:15

He said, “The right time is now here. God’s kingdom is very near. Change your hearts and lives, and believe the Good News!”

Matthew 4:17

From that time Jesus began to tell people his message: “Change your hearts and lives, because God’s kingdom is now very near.”

Galatians 3:22

But this is not possible. The Scriptures put the whole world in prison under the control of sin, so that the only way for people to get what God promised would be through faith in Jesus Christ. It is given to those who believe in him.

Galatians 2:16

But we know that no one is made right with God by following the law. It is trusting in Jesus Christ that makes a person right with God. So we have put our faith in Christ Jesus, because we wanted to be made right with God. And we are right with him because we trusted in Christ—not because we followed the law. I can say this because no one can be made right with God by following the law.

1 Corinthians 1:22

The Jews ask for miraculous signs, and the Greeks want wisdom.

Romans 2:4

God has been kind to you. He has been very patient, waiting for you to change. But you think nothing of his kindness. Maybe you don’t understand that God is kind to you so that you will decide to change your lives.

Romans 1:14

I must serve all people—those who share in Greek culture and those who are less civilized, the educated as well as the ignorant.

Acts 28:23

Paul and the Jews chose a day for a meeting. On that day many more of these Jews met with Paul at his house. He spoke to them all day long, explaining God’s kingdom to them. He used the Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets to persuade them to believe in Jesus.

Acts 16:31

They said to him, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved—you and all who live in your house.”

Acts 10:43

Everyone who believes in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name. All the prophets agree that this is true.”

Acts 8:25

Then the two apostles told the people what they had seen Jesus do. They told them the message of the Lord. Then they went back to Jerusalem. On the way, they went through many Samaritan towns and told people the Good News.

Acts 3:19

So you must change your hearts and lives. Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins.

Acts 2:40

Peter warned them with many other words; he begged them, “Save yourselves from the evil of the people who live now!”

John 20:31

But these are written so that you can believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. Then, by believing, you can have life through his name.

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. But those who do not obey the Son will never have that life. They cannot get away from God’s anger.”

Luke 15:10

In the same way, it’s a happy time for the angels of God when one sinner decides to change.”

Luke 15:7

In the same way, I tell you, heaven is a happy place when one sinner decides to change. There is more joy for that one sinner than for 99 good people who don’t need to change.

Luke 13:5

They were not. But I tell you if you don’t decide now to change your lives, you will all be destroyed too!”

Matthew 3:2

John said, “Change your hearts and lives, because God’s kingdom is now very near.”

Colossians 2:5

Even though I am far away, my thoughts are always with you. I am happy to see your good lives and your strong faith in Christ.

Acts 24:24

After a few days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jew. Felix asked for Paul to be brought to him. He listened to Paul talk about believing in Christ Jesus.

Acts 19:17

All the people in Ephesus, Jews and Greeks, learned about this. They were all filled with fear and gave great honor to the Lord Jesus.

Luke 16:28

I have five brothers. He could warn my brothers so that they will not come to this place of pain.’

Acts 20:23

I know only that in every city the Holy Spirit tells me that troubles and even jail wait for me.