the wicked

Isaiah 1:16-18
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! . . .

2 Chronicles 7:14
and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 8:4-6
So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: 'Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return? . . .

Ezekiel 3:18, 19
If I say to the wicked man, 'You will surely die, ' but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood. . . .

Ezekiel 18:21-23, 27-32
But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die. . . .

Ezekiel 33:11, 14-16
Say to them: 'As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?' . . .

Hosea 14:1, 2
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. . . .

Jonah 3:10
When God saw their actions--that they had turned from their evil ways--He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Luke 15:10, 24
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents." . . .

Acts 3:19
Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

Acts 26:20
First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, . . .

James 4:8-10
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. . . .

unrighteous man.

Genesis 6:5
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Psalm 66:18
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Jeremiah 4:14
Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Zechariah 8:17
do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all these things, " declares the LORD.

Matthew 15:18, 19
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. . . .

Matthew 23:25, 26
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. . . .

Matthew 7:21, 23
Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord, ' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. . . .

Luke 11:39, 40
"Now then, " said the Lord, "you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. . . .

Acts 8:21, 22
You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God. . . .

James 1:15
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.

for

Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

Exodus 34:6, 7
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and truth, . . .

Numbers 14:18, 19
The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.' . . .

Psalm 51:1
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 130:7
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

Jeremiah 3:12, 13
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: 'Return, O faithless Israel, ' declares the LORD. 'I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful, ' declares the LORD. 'I will not be angry forever. . . .

Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little."

Romans 5:16-21
Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification. . . .

Ephesians 1:6-8
to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One. . . .

1 Timothy 1:15, 16
This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst. . . .

abundantly.