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Proverbs 1:23

New Century Version

If only you had listened when I corrected you, I would have told you what’s in my heart; I would have told you what I am thinking.

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I praise your greatness, my God the King; I will praise you forever and ever.

You did not follow my advice and did not listen when I corrected you.

You did not accept my advice, and you rejected my correction.

Whoever accepts correction is on the way to life, but whoever ignores correction will lead others away from life.

Anyone who loves learning accepts correction, but a person who hates being corrected is stupid.

Whoever is stubborn after being corrected many times will suddenly be hurt beyond cure.

These commands are like a lamp; this teaching is like a light. And the correction that comes from them will help you have life.

This will continue until God pours his Spirit from above upon us. Then the desert will be like a fertile field and the fertile field like a forest.

“Sky above, make victory fall like rain; clouds, pour down victory. Let the earth receive it, and let salvation grow, and let victory grow with it. I, the Lord, have created it.

“Come back to me, you unfaithful children,” says the Lord, “because I am your master. I will take one person from every city and two from every family group, and I will bring you to Jerusalem.

Say to them: ‘The Lord God says: As surely as I live, I do not want any who are wicked to die. I want them to stop doing evil and live. Stop! Stop your wicked ways! You don’t want to die, do you, people of Israel?’

Israel, return to the Lord your God, because your sins have made you fall.

Then you will know that I am among the people of Israel, that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other God. My people will never be shamed again.

“After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions.

“In those days and at that time, when I will make things better for Judah and Jerusalem,

“I will pour out on David’s family and the people in Jerusalem a spirit of kindness and mercy. They will look at me, the one they have stabbed, and they will cry like someone crying over the death of an only child. They will be as sad as someone who has lost a firstborn son.

Even though you are bad, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more your heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit. The Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been raised to glory. But later, those who believed in Jesus would receive the Spirit.

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.

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.




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