Acts 17:30

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

They went out and preached that people should repent.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death,

“ ‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.