Luke 13:5
No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
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ASV
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
KJV
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Third, as regards the conclusion of the necessity of penance, it is added: But if you do not do penance, you shall all likewise perish: likewise, not as regards corporal punishment, but as regards spiritual and gehennial punishment. For just as the tower fell upon …
It must moderate our censure, not only that we are sinners, but that we are as great sinners as they, have as much sin to repent of as they had to suffer for. (2.) That therefore we are all concerned to repent, to be sorry for what we have done amiss, and to do so no more. The judgments of God upon others are loud calls to us to repent.
I tell you, Nay - It is improper to suppose that those on whom heavy judgments fall in this world are the worst of people. This is not a world of retribution. Often the most wicked are suffered to prosper here, and their punishment is reserved for another world; while the righteous are called to suffer much, and “appear” to be under the sore displeasure of God, Ps. 73. This only we know, that the wicked will not always escape; that God is just; and that none who do suffer here or hereafter, suffer more than they deserve.
The murder of the Galileans, mentioned in the first verse of this passage — is an event of which we know nothing certain. We are left to conjecture what the motives were, of those who told our Lord of the event. At any rate, they gave Him an opportunity of speaking to them about their own souls, which He did not fail to employ. He seized the event, as His manner was, and made a practical use of it. He bade His informants look within, and think of their own state before God.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ezekiel 18:30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
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and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
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For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.
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Luke 13:3No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
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Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
