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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the θunrighteous man his thoughtsd: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will κabundantlye pardon.

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man of iniquity.

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Mark 7:21‑23• ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;
²³all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man. (Mark 7:21‑23)

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Psa. 130:7• ⁷Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption; (Psa. 130:7)

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multiply to pardon.

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the wicked.

Isa. 1:16‑18• ¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;--cease to do evil,
¹⁷learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
¹⁸Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isa. 1:16‑18)

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2 Chron. 7:14• ¹⁴and my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land. (2 Chron. 7:14)

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Prov. 28:13• ¹³He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy. (Prov. 28:13)

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Jer. 3:3• ³And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed. (Jer. 3:3)

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Jer. 8:4‑6• ⁴And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Do men fall, and not rise up? Doth one turn away, and not return?
⁵Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
⁶I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle. (Jer. 8:4‑6)

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Ezek. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
¹⁹But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. (Ezek. 3:18‑19)

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Ezek. 18:21‑23,27‑32• ²¹And the wicked, if he turn from all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do judgment and justice, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
²²None of his transgressions which he hath committed shall be remembered against him; in his righteousness which he hath done shall he live.
²³Have I any pleasure at all in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; is it not in his turning from his way, that he may live?
²⁷And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness which he hath committed, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall keep his soul alive.
²⁸Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
²⁹But the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Is it not your ways that are unequal?
³⁰Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your snare.
³¹Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel?
³²For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn ye and live. (Ezek. 18:21‑23,27‑32)

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Ezek. 33:11,14‑16• ¹¹Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
¹⁴And when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die, and he turneth from his sin, and doeth judgment and justice;
¹⁵if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, doing nothing that is wrong; he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
¹⁶None of his sins which he hath committed shall be remembered against him: he hath done judgment and justice; he shall certainly live. (Ezek. 33:11,14‑16)

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Hos. 14:1‑2• ¹O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
²Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips. (Hos. 14:1‑2)

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Jonah 3:10• ¹⁰And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did it not. (Jonah 3:10)

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Matt. 9:13• ¹³But go and learn what that is--I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous men but sinners. (Matt. 9:13)

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Luke 15:10,24• ¹⁰Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner.
²⁴for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry. (Luke 15:10,24)

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Acts 3:19• ¹⁹Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, (Acts 3:19)

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Acts 26:20• ²⁰but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. (Acts 26:20)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑11)

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James 4:8‑10• ⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
⁹Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you. (James 4:8‑10)

unrighteous man.

Heb. man of iniquity.

his thoughts.

Gen. 6:5• ⁵And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually. (Gen. 6:5)

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Psa. 66:18• ¹⁸Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear. (Psa. 66:18)

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Jer. 4:14• ¹⁴Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? (Jer. 4:14)

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Zech. 8:17• ¹⁷and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith Jehovah. (Zech. 8:17)

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Matt. 15:18‑19• ¹⁸but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.
¹⁹For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:18‑19)

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Matt. 23:25‑26• ²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.
²⁶Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean. (Matt. 23:25‑26)

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Mark 7:21,23• ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
²³all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man. (Mark 7:21,23)

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Luke 11:39‑40• ³⁹But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward parts are full of plunder and wickedness.
⁴⁰Fools, has not he who has made the outside made the inside also? (Luke 11:39‑40)

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Acts 8:21‑22• ²¹Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not upright before God.
²²Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee; (Acts 8:21‑22)

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James 1:15• ¹⁵then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death. (James 1:15)

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Isa. 43:25• ²⁵--I, I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins. (Isa. 43:25)

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Isa. 44:22• ²²I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. (Isa. 44:22)

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Ex. 34:6‑7• ⁶And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah *God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,
⁷keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. (Ex. 34:6‑7)

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Num. 14:18‑19• ¹⁸Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. (Num. 14:18‑19)

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Psa. 51:1• ¹To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. (Psa. 51:1)

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Psa. 130:7• ⁷Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption; (Psa. 130:7)

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Jer. 3:12‑13• ¹²Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make my face dark upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will not keep anger for ever.
¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast turned thy ways hither and thither to the strangers under every green tree; and ye have not hearkened to my voice, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 3:12‑13)

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Luke 7:47• ⁴⁷For which cause I say to thee, Her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loves little. (Luke 7:47)

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Rom. 5:16‑21• ¹⁶And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.
¹⁷For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)
¹⁸so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.
¹⁹For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.
²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,
²¹in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:16‑21)

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Eph. 1:6‑8• ⁶to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has taken us into favour in the Beloved:
⁷in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;
⁸which he has caused to abound towards us in all wisdom and intelligence, (Eph. 1:6‑8)

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1 Tim. 1:15‑16• ¹⁵Faithful is the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom *I* am the first.
¹⁶But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, the first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal. (1 Tim. 1:15‑16)

abundantly.

Heb. multiply to.

• The forsaking of one’s thoughts and way is just what genuine repentance involves. Faith, we know, is needed too, but when Isaiah wrote, Christ the great Object of faith, though predicted, was not actually revealed. Consequently faith is not brought to the fore in the Old Testament as it is in the New. (“Isaiah 55” by F.B. Hole)

• It is true at all times that the soul returning in repentance finds mercy, and the offer here is not only of mercy but of pardon in abundant measure. (“Isaiah 55” by F.B. Hole)

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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.