| In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. | Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. |
| Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings. | Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. |
| My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. | The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise. |
| Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near. | Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand! |
| Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. | Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord. |
| But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ | And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ |
| When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. | Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it. |
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