yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly,
Matthew 3:2 - Modern King James Version and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And saying, Repent (think differently; change your mind, regretting your sins and changing your conduct), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. American Standard Version (1901) Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Common English Bible “Change your hearts and lives! Here comes the kingdom of heaven!” Catholic Public Domain Version and saying: "Repent. For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. |
yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly,
Will you trust him, that he will return your seed and gather it to your grain-floor?
Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other peoples, but it shall crush and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Then He began to upbraid the cities in which most of His mighty works were done, because they did not repent.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they repented at the proclaiming of Jonah, and behold, One greater than Jonah is here.
He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
He put out another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
He put out another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;
He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.
Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered some of every kind;
Then He said to them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed to the kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out things new and old out of his treasure.
Therefore the kingdom of Heaven has been compared to a certain king who desired to make an accounting with his servants.
For the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a housemaster, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
The kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who made a marriage for his son.
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
For it is as if a man going abroad called his own servants and gave them his goods.
From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Blessed are they who have been persecuted for righteousness sake! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.
and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God draws near. Repent, and believe the gospel.
John came baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, no doubt the kingdom of God has come on you.
Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
And he said, No, father Abraham, but if one should go to them from the dead, they would repent.
So also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.
and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
And lifting up His eyes to His disciples, He said, Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
And He sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance to life to the nations.
Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,
Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
But to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I made known the command to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance
Therefore repent and convert so that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.
For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son;
in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,
Therefore, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent.
Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent.