Matthew 21:29

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The son replied, 'I don’t want to.' But later, he changed his mind and went.

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  • 2 Chr 33:10-19 : 10 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen. 11 So the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon. 12 When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. 13 He prayed to Him, and the LORD was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea. He brought Manasseh back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God. 14 Afterward, he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David west of Gihon in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and surrounding the Ophel. He made it much higher. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah. 15 He removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. 16 Then he restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and thanksgiving. And he commanded Judah to worship the LORD, the God of Israel. 17 However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God. 18 The rest of the acts of Manasseh, including his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are recorded in the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 19 His prayer and how God was moved by his plea, all his sins and unfaithfulness, the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.
  • Isa 1:16-19 : 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil. 17 Learn to do what is good; seek justice, correct the oppressor. Defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow. 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, so that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 The word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.
  • Ezek 18:28-32 : 28 Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, they will surely live; they will not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust? 30 Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. 31 Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel? 32 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
  • Dan 4:34-34 : 34 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of Heaven, because all His works are true and His ways are just. He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
  • Jonah 3:2 : 2 “Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim the message that I tell you.”
  • Jonah 3:8-9 : 8 But let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out to God with fervor. Let each turn from his evil ways and from the violence in their hands. 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent and withdraw His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.” 10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He relented and did not bring upon them the disaster He had threatened.
  • Matt 3:2-8 : 2 and saying, 'Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near.' 3 This is the one who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: 'A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the Lord; make His paths straight.' 4 Now John himself had a garment made of camel’s hair, and a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and the entire region around the Jordan were going out to him, 6 and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins. 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, 'You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
  • Matt 21:31 : 31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said, 'The first.' Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.'
  • Luke 15:17-18 : 17 But when he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but here I am dying from hunger! 18 I will rise up and go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
  • Acts 26:20 : 20 Instead, I preached first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and then to all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
  • Eph 2:1-9 : 1 And you were dead in your transgressions and sins. 2 In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 Among them we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, carrying out the inclinations of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, 5 made us alive together with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions—by grace you have been saved. 6 And He raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 7 So that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we might walk in them. 11 Therefore, remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called 'the uncircumcision' by those who are called 'the circumcision,' which is done in the flesh by human hands— 12 were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
  • Eph 4:17-19 : 17 Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

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    30 The man then went to the second son and said the same thing. He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go.

    31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said, 'The first.' Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.'

  • 28 What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.'

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    28 But he became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

    29 But he answered his father, 'Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

  • 11 Then He said, 'There was a man who had two sons.'

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    17 But when he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but here I am dying from hunger!

    18 I will rise up and go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

    19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.’

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    29 His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will repay you.'

    30 But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.

    31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.

  • 21 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

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    4 He told them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'

    5 So they went. He went out again around the sixth and ninth hours and did the same thing.

    6 About the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?'

    7 They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.'

  • 5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.

  • 29 Peter said to him, "Even if all fall away, I will not."

  • 3 He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

  • Luke 20:9-10
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    9 Then he began to tell the people this parable: 'A man planted a vineyard, leased it to some farmers, and went away for a long time.

    10 At harvest time, he sent a servant to the farmers so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

  • 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them,

  • 59 He said to another man, 'Follow me.' But the man replied, 'Lord, let me first go and bury my father.'

  • 30 ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

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    35 But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

    36 Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group, but they treated them the same way.

    37 Finally, he sent his son to them. 'They will respect my son,' he said.

    38 But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance!'

    39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

    40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenant farmers?

    41 They said to him, 'He will bring those wretches to a miserable end and lease the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit at the proper times.'

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    18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’

    19 Another said, ‘I have bought five pairs of oxen, and I am on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’

    20 Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I cannot come.’

  • 13 Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.'

  • 4 For a while, he refused. But later, he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God or respect people, I will give her justice.'

  • 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

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    61 Another said, 'I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at my home.'

    62 Jesus replied, 'No one who puts their hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.'

  • 26 At this the servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.'

  • Luke 17:7-8
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    7 Which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

    8 Instead, won't he say to him, ‘Prepare my dinner, make yourself ready and serve me while I eat and drink; after that, you may eat and drink’?

  • 33 Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

  • 16 He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others. When they heard this, they said, 'May it never happen!'

  • 25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them, he said,

  • 34 Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me."

  • 15 So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

  • 2 At the appointed time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

  • 21 Another of His disciples said to Him, 'Lord, let me first go and bury my father.'