82. REPENTANCE. One. Do repentance and be baptized (Acts 2:38). Do repentance and be converted that your sins may be blotted out for you (Acts 3:19). To give repentance to Israel and the remission of sins (Acts 5:31). Paul said to the Athenians that God commanded all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30). That those who have once earnestly repented and tasted of the heavenly gift, etc., and then fall away again, cannot again be renewed unto repentance (Heb. 6:4-8). Various things about repentance (Rev. 2:5, 16, 22; 3:3, 19). Except ye repent ye shall all perish (Luke 13:3, 5). The joy of the angels over one that repents (Luke 15:7, 10): and of the lost son who repented (verses 11 to the end).
From the Prophets That worship and prayer are vanity unless they purify themselves from evils, and what they are when purified (Isa. 1:11-20). Is not this the fast? to loose the bands of wickedness? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: thy justice shall go before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall gather thee. Thy light shall rise in darkness, and thy thick darkness be as noonday. Jehovah shall lead thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, so that thou shalt be as a watered garden, and as a spring of waters. And thou shalt delight thyself in Jehovah (Isa. 58:6, 10, 11, 14).
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