Matthew 3:2

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“and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.””

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BSBPD

“and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Matthew 3:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Kings 8:47and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
  2. Job 39:12Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
  3. Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
  4. 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.
  5. Ezekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
  6. Daniel 2:44In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
  7. Matthew 4:17From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
  8. Matthew 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  9. Matthew 5:10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  10. Matthew 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
  11. Matthew 6:10Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
  12. Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
  13. Matthew 10:7As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’
  14. Matthew 11:11Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
  15. Matthew 11:20Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
  16. Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
  17. Matthew 13:11He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
  18. Matthew 13:24Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
  19. Matthew 13:31He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
  20. Matthew 13:33He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
  21. Matthew 13:44The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.
  22. Matthew 13:47Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.
  23. Matthew 13:52Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
  24. Matthew 18:1At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

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