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, INVIT
ATIONS (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