PENITENCE-IMPENITENCE

(A) REPENTANCE

(1) Duty of

2Ki 17:13; 2Ch 30:6; Pr 1:23; Isa 22:12; Jer 25:5
Eze 14:6; 18:31; 33:11; Da 4:27; Ho 14:2; Joe 2:12; Mal 3:7
Mt 3:2; Lu 13:2,3; Ac 3:19; 8:22; 17:30; 26:20

--SEE Confession of Sin, CONFESSION
Cleansing, CLEANSING
Divine Pleadings, INVITATIONS

(2) Promises to the Penitent

1Sa 7:3

Answer to Prayer
2Ch 7:14; 30:9; Ne 1:9

Pardon, for sin
Isa 55:7; Jer 3:12; 31:9

Life
Eze 18:21; Zec 1:3

Comfort
Mt 5:4; Lu 15:7

The Gift of the Holy Spirit
Ac 2:38

For other promises to the Penitent, See PROMISES, DIVINE

(3) Examples of

Ahab
1Ki 21:27

Josiah
2Ki 22:19

Israel in Ezra's Time
Ezr 10:1

Job
Job 42:1,6; Ps 38:18; Jer 3:21; Ho 6:1

The Ninevites
Jon 3:6-9

Peter
Mr 14:72

The Prodigal Son
Lu 15:21

The Publican
Lu 18:13

--SEE 2711
Religious Awakening, AWAKENINGS
Pardon, SALVATION

(4) Ascribed to God (change of purpose)

Ge 6:7; Ex 32:14; 1Sa 15:11; Ps 106:45; Ho 11:8; Joe 2:13; Jon 3:9

(5) Fasts Proclaimed in connection with

1Ki 21:9; 2Ch 20:3; Ezr 8:21; Es 4:16; Jer 36:9; Jon 3:5

(B) RETURNING TO GOD

(1) General References to

1Ki 8:48; Ps 78:34; Isa 19:22; 30:15; 55:7; Ho 6:1; 14:1; Mal 3:7
Lu 15:20; 1Pe 2:25

(2) Promises to those who come in Contrition

Ps 34:18; 51:17; Isa 57:15; 66:2; Joe 2:13; Zec 12:10; 2Co 7:10

--SEE Confession of Sin, CONFESSION

(C) IMPENITENCE

(1) Warnings Against

Le 26:23; Pr 1:24; Ec 8:11; Jer 7:13; Ho 7:10; Am 4:6; Hag 2:17
Mt 11:20

--SEE Stubbornness, SELF-WILL

(2) Examples of

2Ki 17:14; 2Ch 28:22; 33:23; Ne 9:29; Jer 6:15; Da 9:13
Lu 16:31; Re 9:21

--SEE Perverseness, PERVERSENESS
Stubbornness, SELF-WILL

(D) CORRECTION DESPISED

Isa 1:5; 9:13; 42:25; Jer 2:30; 5:3; Am 4:9; Zep 3:7
Heb 12:5; Re 16:11

--SEE Stubbornness, SELF-WILL
& SELF-WILL
Blindness, BLINDNESS-VISION
Perverseness, PERVERSENESS
Divine Call, INVITATIONS

(E) HARDNESS OF HEART

(1) Condemned

Ps 95:8; Pr 28:14; 29:1; Isa 42:25; Ro 2:5; Heb 3:13

--SEE Stubbornness, SELF-WILL

(E) HARDNESS OF HEART

(2) Examples of

Ex 8:15; 2Ch 36:13; Ne 9:17; Ps 78:32; Jer 5:3; Da 5:20; Zec 7:12
Mr 3:5; 8:17; 16:14

--SEE Perverseness, PERVERSENESS
Self-will, SELF-WILL
Divine Call, INVITATIONS
Despisers, DESPISERS

(F) INSENSIBILITY, physical and spiritual

Pr 23:35; Isa 42:25; Ac 28:27; Eph 4:19; 1Ti 4:2

--SEE Dullness, DULLNESS
Spiritual Deafness, DEAFNESS
Dead in Sin, 2164
Spiritual Sleep, SLEEP

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