Bible Cross References
the wicked
Isaiah 1:16-18
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Wash yourselves clean. Stop all this evil that I see you doing. Yes, stop doing evil
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and learn to do right. See that justice is done---help those who are oppressed, give orphans their rights, and defend widows."
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The LORD says, "Now, let's settle the matter. You are stained red with sin, but I will wash you as clean as snow. Although your stains are deep red, you will be as white as wool.
2 Chronicles 7:14
if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.
Proverbs 28:13
You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you.
Jeremiah 3:3
That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.
Jeremiah 8:4-6
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The LORD told me to say to his people, "When someone falls down, doesn't he get back up? If someone misses the road, doesn't he turn back?
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Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me.
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I listened carefully, but you did not speak the truth. Not one of you has been sorry for your wickedness; not one of you has asked, 'What have I done wrong?' Each of you keep on going your own way, like a horse rushing into battle.
Ezekiel 3:18
If I announce that someone evil is going to die but you do not warn him to change his ways so that he can save his life, he will die, still a sinner, but I will hold you responsible for his death.
Ezekiel 3:19
If you do warn an evil man and he doesn't stop sinning, he will die, still a sinner, but your life will be spared.
Ezekiel 18:21-23
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"If someone evil stops sinning and keeps my laws, if he does what is right and good, he will not die; he will certainly live.
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All his sins will be forgiven, and he will live, because he did what is right.
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Do you think I enjoy seeing evil people die?" asks the Sovereign LORD. "No, I would rather see them repent and live.
Ezekiel 18:27-32
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When someone evil stops sinning and does what is right and good, he saves his life.
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He realizes what he is doing and stops sinning, so he will certainly not die, but go on living.
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And you Israelites say, 'What the Lord does isn't right.' You think my way isn't right, do you? It is your way that isn't right.
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"Now I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling you Israelites that I will judge each of you by what you have done. Turn away from all the evil you are doing, and don't let your sin destroy you.
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Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?
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I do not want anyone to die," says the Sovereign LORD. "Turn away from your sins and live."
Ezekiel 33:11
Tell them that as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I do not enjoy seeing sinners die. I would rather see them stop sinning and live. Israel, stop the evil you are doing. Why do you want to die?
Ezekiel 33:14-16
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I may warn someone evil that he is going to die, but if he stops sinning and does what is right and good---
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for example, if he returns the security he took for a loan or gives back what he stole---if he stops sinning and follows the laws that give life, he will not die, but live.
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I will forgive the sins he has committed, and he will live because he has done what is right and good.
Hosea 14:1
Return to the LORD your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.
Hosea 14:2
Return to the LORD, and let this prayer be your offering to him: "Forgive all our sins and accept our prayer, and we will praise you as we have promised.
Jonah 3:10
God saw what they did; he saw that they had given up their wicked behavior. So he changed his mind and did not punish them as he had said he would.
Matthew 9:13
Go and find out what is meant by the scripture that says: 'It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.' I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts."
Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, the angels of God rejoice over one sinner who repents."
Luke 15:24
For this son of mine was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.' And so the feasting began.
Acts 3:19
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that he will forgive your sins. If you do,
Acts 26:20
First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
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Surely you know that the wicked will not possess God's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts
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or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves---none of these will possess God's Kingdom.
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Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
James 4:8-10
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Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!
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Be sorrowful, cry, and weep; change your laughter into crying, your joy into gloom!
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
his thoughts
Genesis 6:5
When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,
Psalm 66:18
If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?
Zechariah 8:17
Do not plan ways of harming one another. Do not give false testimony under oath. I hate lying, injustice, and violence."
Matthew 15:18
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these are the things that make you ritually unclean.
Matthew 15:19
For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.
Matthew 23:25
"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and plate, while the inside is full of what you have gotten by violence and selfishness.
Matthew 23:26
Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!
Mark 7:21
For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,
Mark 7:23
all these evil things come from inside you and make you unclean."
Luke 11:39
So the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of your cup and plate, but inside you are full of violence and evil.
Luke 11:40
Fools! Did not God, who made the outside, also make the inside?
Acts 8:21
You have no part or share in our work, because your heart is not right in God's sight.
Acts 8:22
Repent, then, of this evil plan of yours, and pray to the Lord that he will forgive you for thinking such a thing as this.
James 1:15
Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
for
Isaiah 43:25
And yet, I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am. I will not hold your sins against you.
Isaiah 44:22
I have swept your sins away like a cloud. Come back to me; I am the one who saves you."
Exodus 34:6
The LORD then passed in front of him and called out, "I, the LORD, am a God who is full of compassion and pity, who is not easily angered and who shows great love and faithfulness.
Exodus 34:7
I keep my promise for thousands of generations and forgive evil and sin; but I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents."
Numbers 14:18
'I, the LORD, am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.'
Numbers 14:19
And now, LORD, according to the greatness of your unchanging love, forgive, I pray, the sin of these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt."
Psalm 51:1
Be merciful to me, O God, because of your constant love. Because of your great mercy wipe away my sins!
Psalm 130:7
Israel, trust in the LORD, because his love is constant and he is always willing to save.
Jeremiah 3:12
He told me to go and say to Israel, "Unfaithful Israel, come back to me. I am merciful and will not be angry; I will not be angry with you forever.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only admit that you are guilty and that you have rebelled against the LORD, your God. Confess that under every green tree you have given your love to foreign gods and that you have not obeyed my commands. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Luke 7:47
I tell you, then, the great love she has shown proves that her many sins have been forgiven. But whoever has been forgiven little shows only a little love."
Romans 5:16-21
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And there is a difference between God's gift and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the judgment of "Guilty"; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of "Not guilty!"
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It is true that through the sin of one man death began to rule because of that one man. But how much greater is the result of what was done by the one man, Jesus Christ! All who receive God's abundant grace and are freely put right with him will rule in life through Christ.
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So then, as the one sin condemned all people, in the same way the one righteous act sets all people free and gives them life.
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And just as all people were made sinners as the result of the disobedience of one man, in the same way they will all be put right with God as the result of the obedience of the one man.
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Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more.
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So then, just as sin ruled by means of death, so also God's grace rules by means of righteousness, leading us to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ephesians 1:6-8
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Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son!
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For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. How great is the grace of God,
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which he gave to us in such large measure! In all his wisdom and insight
1 Timothy 1:15
This is a true saying, to be completely accepted and believed: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am the worst of them,
1 Timothy 1:16
but God was merciful to me in order that Christ Jesus might show his full patience in dealing with me, the worst of sinners, as an example for all those who would later believe in him and receive eternal life.