Ezekiel 18:21

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

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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.”

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

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

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

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.

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.

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.”

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

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!”

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’ ”

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

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

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.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

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.’

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

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

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.

When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’ ”

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

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

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

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

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

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

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

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

Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

“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 if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.