Matthew 4:17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.’

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

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.

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.

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

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,

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.

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

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

But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

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.’ ”

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.

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.

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.

But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

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

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?

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

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

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

“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.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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

Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

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

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

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.

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

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

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

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!”

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

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

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.”

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

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

“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,

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.

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

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

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

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

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

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,