¹² And they went out, preaching the need for a change of heart in men.

¹⁷ From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.

³⁰ For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.

² Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.

⁸ Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

³ I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.

⁴⁷ And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

³⁸ And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.

¹⁸ And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

²¹ Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁵ Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

²⁶ And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

⁹ Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

¹⁰ For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

²⁰ But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

²⁰ Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.

³ The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

¹⁵ And saying, The time has come, and the kingdom of God is near: let your hearts be turned from sin and have faith in the good news.

⁶ And they went away, journeying through all the towns, preaching the good news and making people free from diseases in all places.

³² The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: for they were turned away from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; but now something greater than Jonah is here.

⁵ I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.

⁷ I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

¹⁰ Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.

¹⁹ So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

¹³ But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.