Job 39:12

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.”

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

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

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

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

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

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.

With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

As you go, preach, saying, ‘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.”

Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

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

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;

But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.” ’ ”

“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.

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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?” ’

“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

They went out and preached that people should repent.

whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

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

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

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.

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

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

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

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.

“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,

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

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

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.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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

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,

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.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Send your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!”

In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.

Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”

My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.

For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown.

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”

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

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,