Matthew 3:2

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

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

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.

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

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.”

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

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.

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

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.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

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.

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?

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

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

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

“I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; “for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

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

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

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

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.

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

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

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

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.

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

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

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

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.

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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.’

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?

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

“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.

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.’

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!”

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.”

“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.

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?” ’

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,