Repentance
Turning from sin and returning to God
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together in one gathering, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:6
The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Read commentary →Genesis 6:7
The Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
Read commentary →Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:4
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
Read commentary →Genesis 7:21
All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
Read commentary →Genesis 7:23
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:8
He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Read commentary →Genesis 8:10
He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
Read commentary →Genesis 8:12
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
Read commentary →Genesis 9:11
I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."
Read commentary →Exodus 4:7
He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
Read commentary →Exodus 4:18
Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
Read commentary →Exodus 4:19
The Lord said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."
Read commentary →Exodus 4:20
Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.
Read commentary →Exodus 4:21
The Lord said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
Read commentary →Exodus 5:22
Moses returned to the Lord, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
Read commentary →Exodus 6:26
These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies."
Read commentary →Exodus 7:3
I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Read commentary →Exodus 7:4
But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
Read commentary →Exodus 7:13
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them; as the Lord had spoken.
Read commentary →Exodus 7:22
The magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them; as the Lord had spoken.
Read commentary →Exodus 8:15
But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them, as the Lord had spoken.
Read commentary →Exodus 8:19
Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God:" and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them; as the Lord had spoken.
Read commentary →Exodus 8:32
Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.
Read commentary →Exodus 9:7
Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of Israel dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.
Read commentary →Exodus 9:12
The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
Read commentary →Exodus 9:31
The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
Read commentary →Exodus 9:34
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Read commentary →Numbers 5:8
But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to the Lord shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 1:22
You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 1:25
They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which the Lord our God gives to us."
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 1:45
You returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord did not listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you.
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the Lord your God, and listen to his voice:
Read commentary →Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.
Read commentary →Joshua 2:16
She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."
Read commentary →Joshua 2:22
They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but did not find them.
Read commentary →Joshua 2:23
Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.
Read commentary →Joshua 4:18
It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
Read commentary →Joshua 5:2
At that time, the Lord said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time."
Read commentary →Joshua 6:14
The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
Read commentary →Joshua 7:3
They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Do not make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them."
Read commentary →Joshua 7:26
They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. The Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
Read commentary →Joshua 8:21
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.
Read commentary →Joshua 8:24
It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
Read commentary →Joshua 8:26
For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Read commentary →Judges 2:18
When the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved the Lord because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
Read commentary →Judges 2:19
But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they did not cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Read commentary →Judges 3:19
But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, king." The king said, "Keep silence!" All who stood by him went out from him.
Read commentary →Judges 6:18
Please do not go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you." He said, "I will wait until you come back."
Read commentary →Judges 7:3
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.' There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; but ten thousand remained.
Read commentary →Judges 7:15
It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped, and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, "Get up, for the Lord has delivered into your hand the army of Midian."
Read commentary →Judges 8:9
He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower."
Read commentary →Judges 8:13
Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
Read commentary →Judges 8:33
It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
Read commentary →Judges 9:56
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
Read commentary →Ruth 1:6
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.
Read commentary →Ruth 1:7
She went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
Read commentary →Ruth 1:8
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Read commentary →Ruth 1:11
Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Read commentary →Ruth 1:15
She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.
Read commentary →Ruth 1:16
Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;
Read commentary →Ruth 1:21
I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
Read commentary →Ruth 2:13
Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens."
Read commentary →Ruth 4:3
He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's.
Read commentary →Ruth 4:15
He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:16
Now I ask one petition of you. Do not deny me." She said to him, "Say on."
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:17
He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:20
Then she said, "I ask one small petition of you; do not deny me." The king said to her, "Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you."
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:33
So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. But to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace forever from the Lord."
Read commentary →1 Kings 9:6
But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Read commentary →2 Kings 1:5
The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, "Why is it that you have returned?"
Read commentary →2 Kings 1:11
Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down quickly!'"
Read commentary →2 Kings 1:13
Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, "Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
Read commentary →2 Kings 2:13
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
Read commentary →2 Kings 2:18
They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Did I not tell you, 'Do not go?'"
Read commentary →2 Kings 2:25
He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
Read commentary →2 Kings 3:27
Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Read commentary →2 Kings 5:10
Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean."
Read commentary →2 Kings 5:14
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Read commentary →2 Kings 8:3
It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
Read commentary →2 Kings 8:6
When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:30
Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord, and said to him, "Thus says the king, 'Come forth!'" He said, "No; but I will die here." Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:41
It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.
Read commentary →1 Kings 8:33
"When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house:
Read commentary →1 Kings 8:35
"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:
Read commentary →1 Kings 8:47
yet if they shall 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;'
Read commentary →2 Kings 3:4
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
Read commentary →2 Kings 4:22
She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again."
Read commentary →2 Kings 4:31
Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."
Read commentary →2 Kings 4:35
Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
Read commentary →2 Kings 4:38
Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."
Read commentary →2 Kings 5:15
He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, "See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant."
Read commentary →2 Kings 7:8
When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.
Read commentary →2 Kings 7:15
They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
Read commentary →2 Kings 8:29
King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
Read commentary →2 Kings 9:15
but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, "If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel."
Read commentary →2 Kings 9:20
The watchman said, "He came to them, and isn't coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously."
Read commentary →2 Kings 9:36
Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, "This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,
Read commentary →1 Chronicles 7:22
Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 6:23
then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 6:24
"If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 6:25
then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 6:26
"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 6:42
"Lord God, do not turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant."
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 7:19
But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Read commentary →Ezra 2:1
Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;
Read commentary →Ezra 6:21
The children of Israel who had come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek the Lord, the God of Israel, ate,
Read commentary →Nehemiah 2:6
The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), "For how long shall your journey be? And when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 2:15
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 4:6
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 4:9
But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 5:11
Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them."
Read commentary →Nehemiah 5:12
Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 8:17
All the assembly of those who had come again out of the captivity made booths, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 9:26
"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 9:28
But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
Read commentary →Nehemiah 9:35
For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.
Read commentary →Esther 2:14
In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
Read commentary →Esther 4:13
Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that you will escape in the king's house any more than all the Jews.
Read commentary →Esther 6:12
Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
Read commentary →Esther 7:8
Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Read commentary →Esther 8:8
Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may not be reversed by any man."
Read commentary →Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
Read commentary →Job 6:29
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
Read commentary →Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Read commentary →Job 9:12
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
Read commentary →Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
Read commentary →Psalms 7:8
The Lord administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Lord, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
Read commentary →Psalms 7:13
He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
Read commentary →Psalms 7:17
I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
Read commentary →Psalms 9:4
For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
Read commentary →Psalms 9:18
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Read commentary →Proverbs 1:8
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching:
Read commentary →Proverbs 1:28
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
Read commentary →Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
Read commentary →Proverbs 2:19
None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
Read commentary →Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Read commentary →Proverbs 3:20
By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
Read commentary →Proverbs 3:21
My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Read commentary →Proverbs 3:25
Do not be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:
Read commentary →Proverbs 3:28
Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:4
He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Read commentary →Proverbs 5:7
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Read commentary →Proverbs 6:16
There are six things which the Lord hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
Read commentary →Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
Read commentary →Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the Law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Read commentary →Proverbs 7:24
Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:6
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
Read commentary →Proverbs 8:23
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 5:14
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Read commentary →Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Read commentary →Song of Solomon 7:1
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
Read commentary →Isaiah 1:9
Unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
Read commentary →Isaiah 1:15
When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Read commentary →Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;
Read commentary →Isaiah 1:27
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
Read commentary →Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Read commentary →Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
Read commentary →Isaiah 4:3
It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;
Read commentary →Isaiah 5:25
Therefore the Lord's anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
Read commentary →Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed."
Read commentary →Isaiah 6:13
If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock."
Read commentary →Isaiah 7:2
It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
Read commentary →Isaiah 7:3
Then the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
Read commentary →Isaiah 7:13
He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
Read commentary →Isaiah 8:3
I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the Lord to me, "Call his name 'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.'
Read commentary →Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.
Read commentary →Isaiah 9:11
Therefore the Lord will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
Read commentary →Isaiah 9:13
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought the Lord of hosts.
Read commentary →Isaiah 9:16
For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
Read commentary →Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Read commentary →Isaiah 9:20
One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
Read commentary →Jeremiah 2:35
"Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'
Read commentary →Jeremiah 3:1
"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 3:7
I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she did not return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 3:10
Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says the Lord; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says the Lord. 'I will not keep anger forever.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 3:14
"Return, backsliding children," says the Lord; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 3:19
"But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'
Read commentary →Jeremiah 3:22
"Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding." "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the Lord our God.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 4:1
"If you will return, Israel," says the Lord, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;
Read commentary →Jeremiah 4:8
For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord hasn't turned back from us.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 4:28
For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not relented, neither will I turn back from it."
Read commentary →Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do your eyes not look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
Read commentary →Jeremiah 6:9
Thus says the Lord of hosts, "They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets."
Read commentary →Jeremiah 8:4
"Moreover you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?
Read commentary →Jeremiah 8:6
I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, "What have I done?" Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she groans, and turns away.
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:9
Her filthiness was in her skirts; she did not remember her latter end; therefore her fall was astonishing; she has no comforter. "Look, Lord, on my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself."
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:11
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their precious things for food to refresh the soul. "Look, Lord, and see, for I am despised."
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:13
From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears; because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:17
Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her. The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:19
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city, while they searched for food to refresh their souls.
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:21
They have heard that I groan; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring the day that you have proclaimed, so that they shall end up like me.
Read commentary →Lamentations 2:3
He has cut off in fierce anger all the strength of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the enemy. He has blazed in Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
Read commentary →Lamentations 2:8
The Lord has determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Read commentary →Lamentations 2:13
What shall I testify of you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is great like the sea. Who can heal you?
Read commentary →Lamentations 3:64
You will render to them what they deserve, Lord, according to the work of their hands.
Read commentary →Ezekiel 1:14
The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Read commentary →Ezekiel 3:19
Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
Read commentary →Ezekiel 3:20
"Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
Read commentary →Ezekiel 5:13
Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
Read commentary →Ezekiel 7:13
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
Read commentary →Ezekiel 8:6
He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations."
Read commentary →Ezekiel 8:13
He said also to me, "You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do."
Read commentary →Ezekiel 8:15
Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? You shall again see yet greater abominations than these."
Read commentary →Ezekiel 8:17
Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
Read commentary →Ezekiel 9:11
Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, "I have done as you have commanded me."
Read commentary →Daniel 9:13
As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us. Yet have we not tried to gain the favor of the Lord our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
Read commentary →Daniel 9:16
Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
Read commentary →Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with open spaces and a moat, but in times of distress.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:11
I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:9
It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:4
Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
Read commentary →Hosea 6:1
"Come, and let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:11
"Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to the Lord their God, nor sought him, for all this.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:16
They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:13
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But the Lord doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:3
They won't dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Read commentary →Joel 2:12
"Yet even now," says the Lord, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
Read commentary →Joel 2:13
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Read commentary →Joel 2:14
Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the Lord, your God.
Read commentary →Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
Read commentary →Amos 1:6
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom;
Read commentary →Amos 1:9
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant;
Read commentary →Amos 1:11
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
Read commentary →Amos 1:13
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.
Read commentary →Amos 2:1
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;
Read commentary →Amos 2:4
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected the Lord's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;
Read commentary →Amos 2:6
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
Read commentary →Amos 4:6
"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Amos 4:8
So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Amos 4:9
"I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Amos 4:10
"I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven't returned to me," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Amos 4:11
"I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Amos 7:6
The Lord relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord God.
Read commentary →Amos 9:14
I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Read commentary →Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the Lord is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
Read commentary →Jonah 1:13
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.
Read commentary →Jonah 3:9
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
Read commentary →Jonah 4:2
He prayed to the Lord, and said, "Please, Lord, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
Read commentary →Micah 1:7
All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."
Read commentary →Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
Read commentary →Micah 7:19
He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Read commentary →Nahum 2:3
The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
Read commentary →Nahum 3:7
It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"
Read commentary →Zephaniah 2:7
The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for the Lord, their God, will visit them, and restore them.
Read commentary →Zephaniah 3:20
At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the Lord.
Read commentary →Zechariah 1:3
Therefore tell them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Return to me,' says the Lord of hosts, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord of hosts.
Read commentary →Zechariah 1:4
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the Lord.
Read commentary →Zechariah 1:16
Therefore thus says the Lord: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the Lord of hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'
Read commentary →Zechariah 1:17
"Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"
Read commentary →Zechariah 4:1
The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
Read commentary →Zechariah 5:1
Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
Read commentary →Zechariah 6:1
Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
Read commentary →Zechariah 8:3
Thus says the Lord: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, 'The Holy Mountain.'"
Read commentary →Zechariah 8:14
For thus says the Lord of hosts: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says the Lord of hosts, "and I did not repent;
Read commentary →Zechariah 9:8
I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.
Read commentary →Zechariah 9:12
Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
Read commentary →Malachi 1:4
Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says the Lord of hosts, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom the Lord shows wrath forever."
Read commentary →Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
Read commentary →Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the Lord of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'
Read commentary →Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
Read commentary →Matthew 1:20
But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
Read commentary →Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
Read commentary →Matthew 2:4
And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Messiah would be born.
Read commentary →Matthew 2:12
Being warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.
Read commentary →Matthew 2:13
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."
Read commentary →Matthew 2:19
But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
Read commentary →Matthew 2:22
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,
Read commentary →Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but the one who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Read commentary →Matthew 3:13
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
Read commentary →Matthew 4:5
Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
Read commentary →Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
Read commentary →Matthew 4:17
From that time, Jesus began to proclaim, and to say, "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is near."
Read commentary →Matthew 4:25
And great multitudes from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him.
Read commentary →Matthew 5:1
And seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
Read commentary →Matthew 5:31
"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'
Read commentary →Matthew 6:2
Therefore when you do merciful deeds, do not sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from people. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Read commentary →Matthew 6:5
"And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
Read commentary →Matthew 6:16
"Moreover when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Read commentary →Matthew 7:2
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Read commentary →Matthew 7:13
"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.
Read commentary →Matthew 7:28
And it happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,
Read commentary →Matthew 8:1
And when he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
Read commentary →Matthew 8:16
And when evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
Read commentary →Matthew 8:24
And behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
Read commentary →Matthew 8:26
And he said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Read commentary →Matthew 9:2
And behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven."
Read commentary →Matthew 9:10
And it happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Read commentary →Matthew 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
Read commentary →Matthew 9:14
Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"
Read commentary →Matthew 9:22
But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.
Read commentary →Matthew 9:35
And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness.
Read commentary →Mark 1:21
They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.
Read commentary →Mark 1:32
At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.
Read commentary →Mark 2:5
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
Read commentary →Mark 2:18
John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
Read commentary →Mark 3:1
He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.
Read commentary →Mark 3:5
When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
Read commentary →Mark 3:7
Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed from Galilee, from Judea,
Read commentary →Mark 4:5
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
Read commentary →Mark 4:8
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
Read commentary →Mark 4:24
And he said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you.
Read commentary →Mark 4:30
And he said, "To what will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we use for it?
Read commentary →Mark 4:40
And he said to them, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
Read commentary →Mark 5:34
And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."
Read commentary →Mark 6:1
And he went out from there and came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.
Read commentary →Mark 6:2
When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
Read commentary →Mark 6:6
And He marveled because of their unbelief. And he went around the villages teaching.
Read commentary →Mark 6:31
And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to an isolated place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
Read commentary →Mark 6:52
for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
Read commentary →Mark 7:18
He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,
Read commentary →Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Read commentary →Mark 7:24
From there he arose, and went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice.
Read commentary →Mark 7:31
Again he departed from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.
Read commentary →Mark 8:12
He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."
Read commentary →Mark 8:17
He, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Do you not perceive yet, neither understand? Are your hearts hardened?
Read commentary →Mark 8:29
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Messiah."
Read commentary →Mark 8:31
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Read commentary →Mark 9:7
A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Read commentary →Mark 9:9
As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Read commentary →Mark 9:19
He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."
Read commentary →Mark 9:30
They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it.
Read commentary →Mark 9:31
For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise again."
Read commentary →Luke 1:26
Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Read commentary →Luke 2:4
Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
Read commentary →Luke 2:11
For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Messiah, the Lord.
Read commentary →Luke 2:17
When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.
Read commentary →Luke 2:18
All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.
Read commentary →Luke 2:26
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Messiah.
Read commentary →Luke 2:33
And his father and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him,
Read commentary →Luke 2:34
and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
Read commentary →Luke 4:16
He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
Read commentary →Luke 4:21
He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
Read commentary →Luke 5:3
He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
Read commentary →Luke 5:33
They said to him, "The disciples of John often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink."
Read commentary →Luke 6:2
But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
Read commentary →Luke 6:6
It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
Read commentary →Luke 6:25
Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Read commentary →Luke 6:39
He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?
Read commentary →Luke 7:19
John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to the Lord, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"
Read commentary →Luke 7:31
"To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?
Read commentary →Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
Read commentary →Luke 8:6
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
Read commentary →Luke 8:8
Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Read commentary →Luke 8:25
He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
Read commentary →Luke 8:50
But Jesus hearing it, answered him, "Do not be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed."
Read commentary →Luke 9:20
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Messiah of God."
Read commentary →Luke 9:41
Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."
Read commentary →Luke 9:43
They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,
Read commentary →John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
Read commentary →John 1:41
He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
Read commentary →John 1:49
Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"
Read commentary →John 3:10
Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things?
Read commentary →John 3:36
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
Read commentary →John 4:7
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
Read commentary →John 4:10
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
Read commentary →John 4:23
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
Read commentary →John 4:25
The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."
Read commentary →John 4:46
Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
Read commentary →John 5:25
Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.
Read commentary →John 5:26
For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
Read commentary →John 6:17
and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
Read commentary →John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
Read commentary →John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
Read commentary →John 7:28
Jesus therefore called out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
Read commentary →John 7:41
Others said, "This is the Messiah." But some said, "What, does the Messiah come out of Galilee?
Read commentary →John 8:26
I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."
Read commentary →John 8:40
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
Read commentary →John 8:41
You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
Read commentary →John 9:29
We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."
Read commentary →John 9:30
The man answered them, "How amazing! You do not know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
Read commentary →John 9:31
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
Read commentary →John 9:34
They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
Read commentary →John 9:35
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
Read commentary →John 9:40
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
Read commentary →Acts 3:19
"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,
Read commentary →Acts 3:24
Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
Read commentary →Acts 5:31
God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
Read commentary →Acts 7:35
"This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'-God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Read commentary →Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask the Lord if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
Read commentary →Acts 9:11
The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
Read commentary →Acts 9:30
When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.
Read commentary →2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.
Read commentary →2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
Read commentary →James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
Read commentary →1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Read commentary →1 John 4:2
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
Read commentary →1 John 4:15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
Read commentary →2 John 1:7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Anti-Christ.
Read commentary →Revelation 2:5
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
Read commentary →Revelation 2:16
Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
Read commentary →Revelation 2:21
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
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