BLB Isa 55

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Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the wicked		Isa 1:16-18; 2Ch 7:14; Pro 28:13; Jer 3:3; Jer 8:4-6; Eze 3:18,19; Eze 18:21-23,27-32; Eze 33:11,14-16; Hsa 14:1,2; Jon 3:10; Mat 9:13; Luk 15:10,24; Act 3:19; Act 26:20; 1Cr 6:9-11; Jam 4:8-10
unrighteous man		Heb. man of iniquity
his thoughts		Gen 6:5; Psa 66:18; Jer 4:14; Zec 8:17; Mat 15:18,19; Mat 23:25,26; Mar 7:21,23; Luk 11:39,40; Act 8:21,22; Jam 1:15
for		Isa 43:25; Isa 44:22; Exd 34:6,7; Num 14:18,19; Psa 51:1; Psa 130:7; Jer 3:12,13; Luk 7:47; Rom 5:16-21; Eph 1:6-8; 1Ti 1:15,16
abundantly		Heb. multiply to.

Correlating Passages

the wicked

	Isa 1:16	Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
	Isa 1:17	Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
	Isa 1:18	Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
	2Ch 7:14	If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
	Pro 28:13	He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.
	Jer 3:3	Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
	Jer 8:4	Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
	Jer 8:5	Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
	Jer 8:6	I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
	Eze 3:18	When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
	Eze 3:19	Yet 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.
	Eze 18:21	But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
	Eze 18:22	All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
	Eze 18:23	Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?
	Eze 18:27	Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
	Eze 18:28	Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
	Eze 18:29	Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
	Eze 18:30	Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
	Eze 18:31	Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
	Eze 18:32	For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live ye.
	Eze 33:11	Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, 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?
	Eze 33:14	Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
	Eze 33:15	[If] the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
	Eze 33:16	None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
	Hsa 14:1	O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
	Hsa 14:2	Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
	Jon 3:10	And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.
	Mat 9:13	But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
	Luk 15:10	Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
	Luk 15:24	For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
	Act 3:19	Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
	Act 26:20	But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and [then] to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
	1Cr 6:9	Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
	1Cr 6:10	Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
	1Cr 6:11	And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
	Jam 4:8	Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
	Jam 4:9	Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
	Jam 4:10	Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

his thoughts

	Gen 6:5	And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
	Psa 66:18	If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me]:
	Jer 4:14	O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
	Zec 8:17	And 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 the LORD.
	Mat 15:18	But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
	Mat 15:19	For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
	Mat 23:25	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
	Mat 23:26	[Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
	Mar 7:21	For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
	Mar 7:23	All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
	Luk 11:39	And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
	Luk 11:40	[Ye] fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
	Act 8:21	Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
	Act 8:22	Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
	Jam 1:15	Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

for

	Isa 43:25	I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
	Isa 44:22	I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
	Exd 34:6	And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
	Exd 34:7	Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and tra