Repentance

When the people stayed in darkness and followed the way of the Pharisees that made the word of God to none effect, the people did not think correctly about God and scripture.
The people needed to Repent... and Seek The Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
The welfare of public religion is not righteous, but are the wages of unrighteousness!
The inability to make good choices in the world is because the the people live in darkness because they hate the light. The reason for that hate comes from their appetite for benefits through the "legal charity" of the social welfare State.
The "right of passage" for all followers of Christ, young and old, is to repent of thinking that is in opposition to "The Way" of Christ and God, and start seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness instead of the "rewards of unrighteousness".
The Church established by Christ is one form of government that does not exercise authority one over the other. The most predominant form of government throughout history and around the world was a voluntary system self-organized in patterns of Tens.
Our review of the book "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" points to the way to obtain a state of psychological and spiritual immunity through the practice and process of repentance.
Repenting in the Greek was "metanoeo" which is "thinking differently" but specifically changing the way we think from the thinking of the Pharisees and others who thought legal charity through the rulers who "exercise authority" was okay and moral. That, of course, as Jesus proclaimed, made the word of God to none effect.

Repent!

All the problems of the world begin with the way we think.

To repent is simply to change the way we think.

That is not so easy to do if we are not willing to admit the way we have been thinking may be wrong.

If there was a shortlist of things to do in the Doctrines of Jesus, to repent would be at the top.

But what did it mean to repent?

The Christ, John the Baptist, the Apostles, and all the prophets have warned and told us the truth about The Way to liberty under God. Yet, through sophistry and deception the whole world has believed a lie.

It appears that many people who think they are religious, including the the Modern Christian, have become like the Pharisees and their Corban. And they are not willing to see that they are in need of Repentance.

"Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection."

The means and methods through which societies seek that protection will determine the outcome of liberty or bondage.

Most of the Modern Churches do seem to be the blind leading the blind when it comes to real repentance and The Way of Christ and the Early Church.

Since, they are often promoting practices which makes the word of God to none effect and are engaged in works of iniquity and fail to encourage the practice of Pure Religion, most pastors, preachers, and priests are also in need of repentance but remain under a stronger delusion.

Terms

There are a number of words translated "repent" in the Bible, but in the New Testament it is derived consistently from the Greek word metanoeo which means "to think a different way" or "to change one's mind". To change your mind or your thinking will cause you to change what you do and often the way you do it. While being sorry may lead to Repentance, to repent does not mean to be sorry. You can certainly be sorry without repenting.

We were also told to repent by John the Baptist and to make straight the way of the Lord which was a common theme of the first testament. But what would that look like and how would that set you free?

Moses set a whole nation free, and Jesus set his followers free indeed. The Way he taught prepared the people for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Could it do the same today?

We the people were warned

• Proverbs 1 warns us not to consent with those who want to make gain by having one purse which is the nature of all forms of socialism in the world today.
• Proverbs 23 warns us to not eat the dainties of rulers who exercise authority ©or sit at their tables of the unrighteous mammon as Christ explained.
• Samuel told Saul his kingdom would fall because he foolishly forced the contributions of the people like Herod and the Pharisees were doing with their system of Corban.
• David warns us in Psalms 69 that their table which should have been for their welfare will likely become a snare and a trap.
• Paul repeats the same warning in Romans 11:9 that those tables of rulers with their dainties are a snare. They are a snare because they are based on covetous practices of the world and not upon love that only comes with faith, hope, and charity.
• Peter warned that those covetous practices would make you merchandise and curse children.
• John the Baptist told you to do it by charity which was the straight way and not by force, Jesus, Paul, Peter, and all the prophets left us warnings about covetous practices that makes us merchandise and curse children.
• Even secular historians like Polybius and Plutarch and so many others have warned us about benefits offered rulers.
• Galatians 5:15 warned us not to bite one another less we be devoured.
• Jesus forbid us to be like the governments of the gentiles who called themselves benefactors but provided their benefits by exercising authority.

All these warnings and prohibitions oppose not only socialism but any form of government welfare by forced contributions.

Jesus presses

Jesus Christ also presses the issue of a fundamental need for repentance over and over again in His teachings warning us that without a changing of the mind we will perish. Not only were we told to repent but we were also to seek the Kingdom of Godand the righteousness of God. The straight way is the righteous way that God has sent His prophets to teach us from the beginning.

The way of socialism is not the way of Jesus. In fact, Jesus even opposed all forms of welfare provided through forced offerings by way of taxation.

Thinking differently

The Kingdom of God operated in a different way than the kingdoms of the world. Israel was to operate as that righteous government of God sustained by freewill offerings given in charity to public titular servants who did not exercise authority one over the other but served a network of free assemblies bound, not by contracts, covenants and constitutions, but by a system of love for neighbor as much as you love yourselves. This is why there were commandments not to kill, steal or even covet anything that is your neighbors. But Israel and many of the Jewish sects had perverted and abandoned the way of the Lord taught by Moses and were making the word of God to none effect, causing the nation to bear no fruit. Because of their sinful and covetous practices Jesus as the Christ was going to take the Kingdom of God from them and appoint it to another group, His "little flock".

The people of the world established by Rome had provided for the needy of society by Freewill offerings for centuries. Both Judea and Rome had done this through the religious institutions which they established. These institutions were originally dependent upon charity alone through the Freewill offerings or gifts of the people, for the people and by the people. These institutions were religious because Religion was how you performed your duty to God and your fellowman.

Over time, those systems changed, evolved or devolved, and they began to operate in a different way, according to the way of force. They established different types of social welfare systems in order to provide for the people of their organized society, which was also organized in another way.

The way of bondage

Through a variety of Social compacts men were granted an authority to exercise authority one over the other, make laws and force the contribution of the people. In theory, those men were the Benefactors of society who controlled these institutions of social welfare through which they gained more and more power over society and the persons who were the members of those societies. According to Polybius, the people developed an "appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force". This new way of thinking justified a covetous approach to a form of civil welfare until the people "accustomed to feed(ing) at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence..." Both Rome and Judea created similar systems of welfare which depended upon "a rule of force and violence" which not only altered the minds of the people but became a snare and a trap.

They built stone temples funded by tribute and taxation of their neighbors, and this altered the way the people sacrificed for their neighbor. They no longer lived by faith, hope, and charity but by force, fear, and covetousness. These covetous practices degenerate the people, make them merchandise as they are entangled again in the yoke of bondage, curse children with trillions of dollars in debt; and will cause the people to eventually perish in spirit and in the flesh unless they repent and think a different way.

The way of life

How did so many of the Jews and the people of the world end up needing to repent or perish?

This all came about at the time of Rome and Herod because men with all deceivableness of unrighteousness many unmoored the meanings of the ancient text from their metaphor and allegories because they received not the love of the truth and cunningly devised new unrighteous ways using the ancient names so that the people might believe a lie.

They called their new system by the ancient name Corban, but this new deal was making the word of God to none effect. The systems they created required rulers who Exercised Authority one over the other to force the offerings from the people, which was called foolish by Samuel and forbidden by Christ.

Christ said it was not to be that way.

Told us to live by love and charity.

To not covet our neighbor's things.

We were told not to make agreements and covenants with unbelievers.

That means, if we repent, we will stop coveting and start practicing Pure Religion.

Jesus spoke to the Pharisees in Luke 3:8 "Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."

We can ask the same things of the Modern Christians are you Bringing forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and saying within yourselves, We have Christ and God our father while we covet our neighbor's sweat and toil through the fathers of the earth who offer us the wages of unrighteousness.

The distinguishing characteristic of early Christian was their "union and discipline". They not only refused to receive the benefits offered by the Roman welfare system of qorban, with its compelled contribution and registered membership, but they actually provided a welfare system for all Christians throughout the Empire of Rome and beyond, through a network of assemblies who were bound by faith, hope, and charity, by way of the perfect law of liberty. The people who wrote the Book of One Hundreds did not do that. Nor did they organize their churches like Christ commanded His Church to organize.

Turning around

Unless people who claim to be Christians strive to have a daily ministration that reaches beyond their local group, then they really are not educating their neighbor nor their children in The Way of Christ's kingdom of God, and they should not be identified as Christians. Unless people are gathering together to serve and sacrifice as Christ did, then they are not coming in His Name, and they are not manifesting the fruits worthy of repentance.

Until we do what Christ said -- which includes creating a Daily ministration through a Network of Charity and Hope -- our Faith is dead, and we have not really repented. A hundred years ago, the Church was the social welfare of the people. Today the government of the State is providing a form of benefit, not based on charity, but dependent upon Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other. These are the Fathers of the earth who identify the people as their children of the State. The people are again entangled in the Elements of the World. The modern Church has abandoned that directive of Christ. The communion of the people is not the flesh and blood of Christ freely given, but they bite one another, and they are devoured in the process. They grow fat and lazy on the free Bread and circuses of their new Father.

"Look out kid, it's something you did

God knows when, but you're doing it again" Bob Dylan

In Judea and in the World the people had shifted in their thinking, from systems of Corban or welfare which operated by free will offerings of the people, to ones that operated by forced offerings compelled and imposed on the people by men who called themselves Benefactors but who exercised authority.

John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, the apostles and the Church said it was not to be that way, just as Abraham who would not take a thread by the power of force, and Moses who also set up living Altars to receive freewill offerings, and all the prophets who said, throughout the Old Testament, not to covet they neighbor's goods.

We were to live by faith, hope and charity and the Perfect law of liberty.

Jesus came to change our mind and our hearts so that we might be saved. If we repent of the ways of Nimrod and the Fathers of the earth who offer benefits at the expense of our neighbor, then we will need to gather together in true faith, bound by the hope and love of Christ. If we do not repent, though we say we believe in Jesus, we are false and our fruits will not be liberty but bondage.

It is time we really repent and begin attending to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.

The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.

The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.

The modern Christians are in need of repentance.

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Appearances of Repent NT

• Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
• Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
• Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• Matthew 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.
• Matthew 11:20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
• Matthew 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
• Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
• Matthew 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
• Matthew 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
• Matthew 21:32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
• Matthew 27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• Mark 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
• Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
• Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Mark 6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
• Luke 3:3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
• Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
• Luke 5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Luke 10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
• Luke 11:32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
• Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
• Luke 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

• Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
• Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
• Luke 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
• Luke 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
• Luke 17:4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
• Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• Acts 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;
• Acts 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
• Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
• Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
• Acts 13:24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
• Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
• Acts 19:4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

• Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.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.
• Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
• Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
• 2 Corinthians 7:8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
• 2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
• 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
• 2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• 2 Timothy 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
• Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
• Hebrews 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
• Hebrews 7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
• Hebrews 12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
• 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
• Revelation 2:16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
• Revelation 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
• Revelation 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
• Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
• Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
• Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
• Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
• Revelation 16:11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

Appearances of Repent OT

Genesis 6:6 And it repented(NunChetMem nacham) the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth(NunChetMem nacham) me that I have made them.

• We should note that the same virtual word is translated differently in numerous other verses.

Genesis 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort(NunChetMem nacham) us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted(NunChetMem nacham) after his mother’s [death].

Genesis 27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort(NunChetMem nacham) himself, [purposing] to kill thee.

Genesis 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort <05162> him; but he refused to be comforted <05162>; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 38:12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted(NunChetMem nacham), and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Genesis 50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted(NunChetMem nacham) them, and spake kindly unto them.

Exodus 13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent(NunChetMem nacham) they see war, and they return to Egypt:

Exodus 32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent(NunChetMem nacham) of this evil against thy people.

Exodus 32:14 And the LORD repented(NunChetMem nacham) of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent(NunChetMem nacham): hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent(NunChetMem nacham) himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left.

Judges 2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented(NunChetMem nacham) the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

Judges 21:6 And the children of Israel repented(NunChetMem nacham) them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

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Judges 21:15 And the people repented(NunChetMem nacham) them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

• Nacham does appear in Ruth but is translated comforted again. Ruth 2:13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted <05162> me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.

1 Samuel 15:11 It repenteth(NunChetMem nacham) me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent(NunChetMem nacham) : for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.

1 Samuel 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented(NunChetMem nacham) that he had made Saul king over Israel.

2 Samuel 24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented(NunChetMem nacham) him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

• Again in Samuel Nacham is translated comfort numerous times.

2 Samuel 10:2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort(NunChetMem nacham) him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 10:3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters(NunChetMem nacham) unto thee? hath not David [rather] sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

2 Samuel 12:24 And David comforted(NunChetMem nacham) Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

2 Samuel 13:39 And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted(NunChetMem nacham) concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

1 Kings 8:47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent(ShinVavBeit shuwb):, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented(NunChetMem nacham) him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• Nacham again appears as forms of comfort rather than tepent in

1 Chronicles 7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort(NunChetMem nacham) him.

1 Chronicles 19:2 And David said, I will shew kindness

Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort(NunChetMem nacham) him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfor(NunChetMem nacham) him.

1 Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters(NunChetMem nacham) unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent(NunChetMem nacham) in dust and ashes.

• Again Nacham appears as forms of comfort.

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Job 2:11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort(NunChetMem nacham) him.

Job 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort <05162> me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters(NunChetMem nacham) [are] ye all.

Job 21:34 How then comfort(NunChetMem nacham) ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth <05162> the mourners.

Job 42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all: they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted(NunChetMem nacham) him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

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Psalms 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent(NunChetMem nacham) thee concerning thy servants.

Psalms 106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented(NunChetMem nacham) according to the multitude of his mercies.

Psalms 110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent(NunChetMem nacham), Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Psalms 135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent(NunChetMem nacham) himself concerning his servants.

• Nacham is also translated comfort numerous times in Psalms,ecclesiastes4:1, Isaiah 1:24 (ease), Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 22:4, Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 49:13, Isaiah 51:3, 12, 19...

Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent(NunChetMem nacham), neither will I turn back from it.

Jeremiah 8:6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented(NunChetMem nacham) him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

Jeremiah 15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

Jeremiah 18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent(NunChetMem nacham) of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

Jeremiah 18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent(NunChetMem nacham) of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Jeremiah 20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

Jeremiah 26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent(NunChetMem nacham) me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

Jeremiah 26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent(NunChetMem nacham) him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented(NunChetMem nacham) him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

Jeremiah 31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented(NunChetMem nacham); and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Jeremiah 42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I repent(NunChetMem nacham) me of the evil that I have done unto you.

• Nacham appears numerous times in Lamentations and Ezekiel as comfort.

Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent(ShinVavBeit shuwb), and turn [yourselves] from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent(ShinVavBeit shuwb), and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 24:14 I the LORD have spoken [it]: it shall come to pass, and I will do [it]; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent(NunChetMem nacham); according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

Hosea 11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings(NunChetVavMem nichuwm) are kindled together.

Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance(NunChetMem nocham) shall be hid from mine eyes.

Joel 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Joel 2:14 Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Amos 7:3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

Amos 7:6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

Jonah 3:9 Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Jonah 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.

Jonah 4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

Zechariah 8:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

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