Ezekiel 12:3

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

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

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.

He said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now.” When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

and having a great priest over God’s house,

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

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 the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’

But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’ ” ’ ”

It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.

Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”

“ ‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone.

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

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

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

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.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

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

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

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”

The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.” ’

The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.

He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,