Bible Verses about Repentance
- If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
- Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
- If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy. - For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you return to Him.
- Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance.
- The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
- From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
- But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
- Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
- “For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and live!”
- So rend your heart, and not your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm. - I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
- Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.
- The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.
- I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
- I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.
- “Return to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.
- Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
- Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
- Turn at my rebuke;
Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you. - If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.
- For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
- The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.
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