Bible Verses about Repentance

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• If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
  2 Chronicles 7:14humilityforgivenesshealing
• Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
  Acts 3:19conversionsinforgiveness
• If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  1 John 1:9sinpurificationevil
• He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper,
  but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
  Proverbs 28:13sinconfessionmercy
• Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.
  2 Chronicles 30:9bgraceconversionforgiveness
• Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
  Matthew 3:8conversionlifefruitfulness
• The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
  2 Peter 3:9salvationpatienceconversion
• From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
  Matthew 4:17Jesusconversionevangelism
• But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
  Matthew 9:13mercyrighteousnesssacrifice
• Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  James 4:8sinpurificationrighteousness
• As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
  Revelation 3:19lovelifepunishment
• “For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!”
  Ezekiel 18:32conversiondeatheternal life
• Tear your heart and not your garments,
  and turn to Yahweh, your God;
  for he is gracious and merciful,
  slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
  and relents from sending calamity.
  Joel 2:13heartgracelove
• I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
  Luke 15:7conversionjoyheaven
• The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent.
  Acts 17:30conversionforgiveness
• And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
  Mark 1:15kingdomconversionfaith
• I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
  Luke 5:32sinconversionJesus
• I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
  Luke 13:3conversionpunishment
• ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
  Zechariah 1:3bconversionreliabilityobedience
• Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
  Acts 2:38forgivenessSpiritbaptism
• Turn at my reproof.
  Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you.
  I will make known my words to you.
  Proverbs 1:23conversionwisdomSpirit
• Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.
  Luke 15:10joyangelsconversion
• For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
  2 Corinthians 7:10worryingsadnessconversion
• If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.
  Luke 17:3b-4sinforgivenessspeaking
• The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.
  O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
  Psalm 51:17sacrifice