Romans chapter 1, vs 19 - 25
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… vs 19 … what can be known about God is plain to everyone … God has shown Himself to everyone … vs 20 … since the creation of the world His eternal power and divine nature … invisible though they are … are understood and seen through the things He has made … so … no one has an excuse … vs 21 … for though everyone knows about God … those who are guilty do not honor God or give thanks to Him … and so … those who are guilty become futile in their thinking and their senseless minds are darkened … vs 22 … for … claiming to be wise they become fools … vs 23 … they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles … vs 24 … and so … God gives them up in the lusts of their heart and impurity … to the degrading of their bodies among themselves … vs 25 … exchanging the truth about the living God for a lie … they worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator … Who is blessed for ever …
Ezekiel chapter 18, vs 30 - 32 God speaking
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… vs 30 … I will judge you according to your ways … says the LORD ( YHVH ) God … repent and turn from all your transgressions … otherwise iniquity will be your ruin ... vs 31 … cast away from yourself all the transgressions that you have committed against Me … get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit … why should you die … vs 32 … for … I have no pleasure in the death of anyone … says the LORD ( YHVH ) God … so … turn and live …
18:30 לכן איש כדרכיו אשפט אתכם בית ישראל נאם אדני יהוה שובו והשיבו מכל-פשעיכם ולא-יהיה לכם למכשול עון
18:31 השליכו מעליכם את-כל-פשעיכם אשר פשעתם בם ועשו לכם לב חדש ורוח חדשה ולמה תמתו בית ישראל
18:32 כי לא אחפץ במות המת נאם אדני יהוה והשיבו וחיו
Ezekiel chapter 33, vs 11 God speaking
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… as surely as I live … says the LORD ( YHVH ) God … I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked … to the wicked I say … turn back from your ways and live … turn back from your evil ways for why should you die …
3:11 אמר אליהם חי-אני נאם אדני יהוה אם-אחפץ במות הרשע כי אם-בשוב רשע מדרכו וחיה שובו שובו מדרכיכם הרעים ולמה תמותו בית ישראל
Titus chapter 2, vs 11 - 14
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… 11 … the grace of God has now appeared bringing salvation as an option for all … vs 12 … training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions in this present age … so we can live lives that are self-controlled upright and godly … vs 13 … while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ … vs 14 … Jesus Christ gave Himself so that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people of His own zealous for good deeds ...
2 Peter chapter 3, vs 8 - 13
… vs 8 … with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day … vs 9 … the Lord is not slow about His promise … as some think of slowness … but … is patient with you not wanting any to perish … but rather that … all will come to repentance … vs 10 … for … the day of the Lord will come like a thief and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise and the elements will be dissolved with fire … the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed … so … since … vs 11 … all things will be dissolved in this way … what sort of people should we be … leading lives of holiness and godliness … vs 12 … waiting for and thus hastening the coming of the day of God … when the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved and the elements will melt with fire … vs 13 … therefore … in accordance with His promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth where righteousness is at home …
1 Timothy chapter 2, vs 1 - 6
… vs 1 … I encourage that we all make … prayer … supplication … intercession … and … thanksgiving … for everyone … vs 2 … for all who are in positions of government and leadership … I encourage that we all lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity ... vs 3 … for … this is right and is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior … vs 4 … Who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth … vs 5 … for … there is one God … and … there is one Mediator between God and humankind … Jesus Christ … Who Himself is also human … and … vs 6 … Who gave Himself as a ransom for us all …
Job chapter 19, vs 25 - 26
… I know my Redeemer lives … and … at the last … He will stand upon the earth … after my skin has been destroyed … then … in my flesh … I will see God …
Revelation chapter 22, vs 16 - 17 Jesus Christ speaking
… I AM … the root and descendant of David … the bright and morning star …
… the Spirit of God and the bride say … come …
… let everyone who hears say … come …
… let everyone who is thirsty … come …
… let everyone who wishes take of the water of life as a gift …
John chapter 3, vs 16 - 21 Jesus Christ speaking
… God so loves the world that He gave His only Son … so that … everyone who believes in Him will not perish but will have everlasting life with God forever … I tell you … God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world … but … in order that the world can be saved through Him … everyone who believes in Him is not condemned … but … those who do not believe are condemned already … because they have not believed in the Name of the only Son of God … this is the judgment … the light has come into the world … and … some people love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil … everyone who does evil hates the light and will not come into the light so that their deeds will not be exposed … however … everyone who does that which is true will come to the light so it will be clearly seen that their deeds are done in God …
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