{17:28} How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness, for those who convert to him!
{17:29} For not all things can be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and because they are pleased by the emptiness of malice.
{17:30} What is brighter than the sun? Yet this will fail. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood has invented? And this will be reproved.
{17:31} He beholds the power of the heights of heaven. And all men are earth and ashes.

{17:22} Make supplication before the face of the Lord, and diminish your offenses.
{17:23} Return to the Lord, and turn away from your injustice, and have immense hatred for abomination.
{17:24} And acknowledge the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the circumstances set before you and in prayer to the most high God.
{17:25} Go to the side of the holy generation, to those who live in order to give praise to God.
{17:26} You should not linger in the error of the impious; confess before death. Confession perishes from the dead as if it were nothing.
{17:27} Confess while living; you should give thanks while you are still alive and healthy. And you should praise God and glory in his compassion.