Repent

“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,

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

if my people, who are called by my name, shall 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 will heal their land.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

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.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

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.”

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. — read the full passage →

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.

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

They went out and preached that people should repent.

He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. — read the full passage →

For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God, — read the full passage →

Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. — read the full passage →

Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. — read the full passage →

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! — read the full passage →

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, — read the full passage →

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. — read the full passage →

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. — read the full passage →

Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”