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Acts 20:21

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I warned both Jews and Greeks to change their lives and turn to God and believe in our Lord Jesus.

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John said, “Change your hearts and lives because the kingdom of heaven is near.”

From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Change your hearts and lives, because the kingdom of heaven is near.”

He said, “The right time has come. The kingdom of God is near. Change your hearts and lives and believe the Good News!”

So the followers went out and preached that people should change their hearts and lives.

No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will be destroyed as they were!

No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will all be destroyed too!”

In the same way, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God when one sinner changes his heart and life.”

In the same way, I tell you there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who changes his heart and life, than over ninety-nine good people who don’t need to change.

I have five brothers, and Lazarus could warn them so that they will not come to this place of pain.’

and that a change of hearts and lives and forgiveness of sins would be preached in his name to all nations, starting at Jerusalem.

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

Those who believe in the Son have eternal life, but those who do not obey the Son will never have life. God’s anger stays on them.”

All the prophets say it is true that all who believe in Jesus will be forgiven of their sins through Jesus’ name.”

When the believers heard this, they stopped arguing. They praised God and said, “So God is allowing even other nations to turn to him and live.”

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

In the past, people did not understand God, and he ignored this. But now, God tells all people in the world to change their hearts and lives.

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

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

Peter warned them with many other words. He begged them, “Save yourselves from the evil of today’s people!”

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

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

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

to open their eyes so that they may turn away from darkness to the light, away from the power of Satan and to God. Then their sins can be forgiven, and they can have a place with those people who have been made holy by believing in me.’

I began telling people that they should change their hearts and lives and turn to God and do things to show they really had changed. I told this first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem, and in every part of Judea, and also to the other people.

Paul and the people chose a day for a meeting and on that day many more of the Jews met with Paul at the place he was staying. He spoke to them all day long. Using the law of Moses and the prophets’ writings, he explained the kingdom of God, and he tried to persuade them to believe these things about Jesus.

So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest.

After Peter and John told the people what they had seen Jesus do and after they had spoken the message of the Lord, they went back to Jerusalem. On the way, they went through many Samaritan towns and preached the Good News to the people.

I have a duty to all people—Greeks and those who are not Greeks, the wise and the foolish.

I am not ashamed of the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes—to save the Jews first, and then to save non-Jews.

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved.

He has been very kind and patient, waiting for you to change, but you think nothing of his kindness. Perhaps you do not understand that God is kind to you so you will change your hearts and lives.

but also for us. God will accept us also because we believe in the One who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Since we have been made right with God by our faith, we have peace with God. This happened through our Lord Jesus Christ,

The Jews ask for miracles, and the Greeks want wisdom.

The kind of sorrow God wants makes people change their hearts and lives. This leads to salvation, and you cannot be sorry for that. But the kind of sorrow the world has brings death.

Yet we know that a person is made right with God not by following the law, but by trusting in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we might be made right with God because we trusted in Christ. It is not because we followed the law, because no one can be made right with God by following the law.

I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore—it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me.

Instead, the Scriptures showed that the whole world is bound by sin. This was so the promise would be given through faith to people who believe in Jesus Christ.

That is why since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,

Though I am absent from you in my body, my heart is with you, and I am happy to see your good lives and your strong faith in Christ.

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

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is God’s child, and whoever loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.

So the one who conquers the world is the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.




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