Matthew 3:2

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

Cross References

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.”

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!”

Daniel 2:44

“During the time of the kings of the fourth kingdom, the God of heaven will set up another kingdom that will continue forever. It will never be destroyed. And it will be the kind of kingdom that cannot be passed on to another group of people. This kingdom will crush all the other kingdoms. It will bring them to an end, but that kingdom itself will continue forever.

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.

Matthew 6:10

We pray that your kingdom will come— that what you want will be done here on earth, the same as in heaven.

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.

Matthew 10:7

When you go, tell them this: ‘God’s kingdom is now very near.’

Acts 3:19

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

Luke 15:10

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

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!

Luke 11:20

But I use the power of God to force out demons. This shows that God’s kingdom has now come to you.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not being slow in doing what he promised—the way some people understand slowness. But God is being patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be lost. He wants everyone to change their ways and stop sinning.

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.

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 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.

Luke 6:20

Jesus looked at his followers and said, “Great blessings belong to you who are poor. God’s kingdom belongs to you.

Matthew 13:52

Then Jesus said to the followers, “So every teacher of the law who has learned about God’s kingdom has some new things to teach. He is like the owner of a house. He has new things and old things saved in that house. And he brings out the new with the old.”

Matthew 13:47

“Also, God’s kingdom is like a net that was put into the lake. The net caught many different kinds of fish.

Matthew 13:33

Then Jesus told them another story: “God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough rise.”

Matthew 12:41

On the judgment day, you people who live now will be compared with the people from Nineveh, and they will be witnesses who show how guilty you are. Why do I say this? Because when Jonah preached to those people, they changed their lives. And you are listening to someone greater than Jonah, but you refuse to change!

2 Timothy 2:25

You must gently teach those who don’t agree with you. Maybe God will let them change their hearts so that they can accept the truth.

Colossians 1:13

God made us free from the power of darkness. And he brought us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

Acts 20:21

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

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!”

Luke 9:2

He sent them to tell about God’s kingdom and to heal the sick.

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 1:4

So John the Baptizer came and was baptizing people in the desert area. He told them to be baptized to show that they wanted to change their lives, and then their sins would be forgiven.

Matthew 5:10

Great blessings belong to those who suffer persecution for doing what is right. God’s kingdom belongs to them.

Matthew 5:3

“Great blessings belong to those who know they are spiritually in need. God’s kingdom belongs to them.

Ezekiel 33:11

“You must say to them, ‘The Lord GOD says: By my life, I swear that I don’t enjoy seeing people die—not even evil people! I don’t want them to die. I want them to come back to me. I want them to change their lives so that they can really live. So come back to me! Stop doing bad things! Why must you die, family of Israel?’

Job 42:6

And I am ashamed of myself. I am so sorry. As I sit in the dust and ashes, I promise to change my heart and my life.”

Revelation 2:21

I have given her time to change her heart and turn away from her sin, but she does not want to change.

Matthew 13:31

Then Jesus told the people another story: “God’s kingdom is like a mustard seed that a man plants in his field.

Matthew 13:11

Jesus answered, “Only you can know the secret truths about God’s kingdom. Those other people cannot know these secret truths.

Matthew 6:33

What you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what he wants you to do. Then he will give you all these other things you need.

Revelation 2:5

So remember where you were before you fell. Change your hearts and do what you did at first. If you don’t change, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

Hebrews 6:1

So we should be finished with the beginning lessons about Christ. We should not have to keep going back to where we started. We began our new life by turning away from the evil we did in the past and by believing in God. That’s when we were taught about baptisms, laying hands on people, the resurrection of those who have died, and the final judgment. Now we need to go forward to more mature teaching.

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.

Matthew 22:2

“God’s kingdom is like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son.

Matthew 25:1

“At that time God’s kingdom will be like ten girls who went to wait for the bridegroom. They took their lamps with them.

Matthew 23:13

“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the way for people to enter God’s kingdom. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop those who are trying to enter.

Matthew 20:1

“God’s kingdom is like a man who owned some land. One morning, the man went out very early to hire some people to work in his vineyard.

Matthew 18:23

“So God’s kingdom is like a king who decided to collect the money his servants owed him.

Matthew 11:20

Then Jesus criticized the cities where he did most of his miracles. He criticized these cities because the people there did not change their lives and stop sinning.

1 Kings 8:47

In that faraway land, your people will think about what happened. They will be sorry for their sins, and they will pray to you. They will say, ‘We have sinned and done wrong.’

Luke 21:31

In the same way, when you see all these things happening, you will know that God’s kingdom is very near.

Luke 16:30

“The rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham! But if someone came to them from the dead, then they would decide to change their lives.’

Matthew 25:14

“At that time God’s kingdom will also be like a man leaving home to travel to another place for a visit. Before he left, he talked with his servants. He told his servants to take care of his things while he was gone.

Matthew 13:24

Then Jesus used another story to teach them. Jesus said, “God’s kingdom is like a man who planted good seed in his field.

Matthew 4:23

Jesus went everywhere in the country of Galilee. He taught in the synagogues and told the Good News about God’s kingdom. And he healed all the people’s diseases and sicknesses.

Luke 1:16

“John will help many people of Israel return to the Lord their God.

Job 39:12

Can you trust him to gather your grain and bring it to your threshing place?