150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

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

Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;

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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

{\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.}\par\par\tab Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:\par\tab According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,\par\tab And cleanse me from my sin.

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

I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.}\par

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

And Peter {\i said} unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper:\par\tab But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.

I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, {\i more} than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.\par

Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee,\par\tab And mine iniquity did I not hide:\par\tab I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah;\par\tab And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. {\i Selah

From that time began Jesus to preach, and to say, {\cf6 Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.}\par

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

None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

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

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Create in me a clean heart, O God;\par\tab And renew a right spirit within me.

Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

But go ye and learn what {\i this} meaneth, {\b I desire mercy, and not sacrifice}: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.}\par

For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.

Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.}\par

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

For I will declare mine iniquity;\par\tab I will be sorry for my sin.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

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

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities,\par\tab O Lord, who could stand?

But there is forgiveness with thee,\par\tab That thou mayest be feared.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,\par\tab And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

For thy name's sake, O Jehovah,\par\tab Pardon mine iniquity, for it is great.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

A trespass-offering mocketh fools;\par\tab But among the upright there is good will.

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

As far as the east is from the west,\par\tab So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

{\b And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.}

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.

And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also hath God granted repentance unto life.\par

And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, {\cf6 Neither do I condemn thee: go thy way; from henceforth sin no more.}\par

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive,\par\tab And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.

I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, {\i a repentance} which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:\par\tab A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.\par

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

and said, {\cf6 Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

And Zacch\'e6us stood, and said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have wrongfully exacted aught of any man, I restore fourfold.

And Jesus said unto him, {\cf6 To-day is salvation come to this house, forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

but declared both to them of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Jud\'e6a, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;

if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus {\i as} Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening {\i of the prison} to them that are bound;

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.

He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:\par\tab According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me,\par\tab For thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:

I thought on my ways,\par\tab And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and {\b ye shall find rest unto your souls.}

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.}\par

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

For I know my transgressions;\par\tab And my sin is ever before me.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,\par\tab And done that which is evil in thy sight;\par\tab That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,\par\tab And be clear when thou judgest.

who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant;\par\tab For I do not forget thy commandments.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.\par

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart,\par\tab And lean not upon thine own understanding:

In all thy ways acknowledge him,\par\tab And he will direct thy paths.

Search me, O God, and know my heart:\par\tab Try me, and know my thoughts;

And see if there be any wicked way in me,\par\tab And lead me in the way everlasting.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.\par

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

And enter not into judgment with thy servant;\par\tab For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

And in none other is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved.\par

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, {\i it is} the gift of God;

not of works, that no man should glory.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, {\i he is} a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, the new is come.

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Who can discern {\i his} errors?\par\tab Clear thou me from hidden {\i faults}.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous {\i sins};\par\tab Let them not have dominion over me:\par\tab Then shall I be upright,\par\tab And I shall be clear from great transgression.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.\par

If I regard iniquity in my heart,\par\tab The Lord will not hear:

But verily God hath heard;\par\tab He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Blessed be God,\par\tab Who hath not turned away my prayer,\par\tab Nor his lovingkindness from me.\par

Jesus saith unto him, {\cf6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for;\par\tab And by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;

For innumerable evils have compassed me about;\par\tab Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;\par\tab They are more than the hairs of my head;\par\tab And my heart hath failed me.

And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called thy son.

and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.\par

Before I was afflicted I went astray;\par\tab But now I observe thy word.

All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee,

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son {\i to be} the propitiation for our sins.

let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.\par

For all these things hath my hand made, and {\i so} all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, {\cf6 Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.}

And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:

and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing {\i I do}, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before.

I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things {\i done} in the body, according to what he hath done, whether {\i it be} good or bad.\par

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.\par

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.\par

if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and {\i in} fire:

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.\par

I entreated thy favor with my whole heart:\par\tab Be merciful unto me according to thy word.

And he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom.

And he said unto him, {\cf6 Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.}\par

{\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known {\i me}.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising;\par\tab Thou understandest my thought afar off.

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.\par

To him bear all the prophets witness, that through his name every one that believeth on him shall receive remission of sins.\par

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Jesus answered and said unto him, {\cf6 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Him who knew no sin he made {\i to be} sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.\par

Jehovah is nigh unto all them that call upon him,\par\tab To all that call upon him in truth.

He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him;\par\tab He also will hear their cry and will save them.

I love them that love me;\par\tab And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:\par\tab Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.

For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

Jehovah upholdeth all that fall,\par\tab And raiseth up all those that are bowed down.

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, {\i the same} loveth little.}

for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in {\i your} virtue knowledge;

and in {\i your} knowledge self-control; and in {\i your} self-control patience; and in {\i your} patience godliness;

and in {\i your} godliness brotherly kindness; and in {\i your} brotherly kindness love.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times?

Jesus saith unto him, {\cf6 I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven.

Oh how great is thy goodness,\par\tab Which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee,\par\tab Which thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in thee,\par\tab Before the sons of men!

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.\par

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;\par\tab And uphold me with a willing spirit.

{\i When thou saidst}, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,\par\tab Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.

Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

And if he sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.}\par

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\par

For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye saw it, did not even repent yourselves afterward, that ye might believe him.\par

Him did God exalt with his right hand {\i to be} a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;\par\tab Who healeth all thy diseases;

because it is written, {\b Ye shall be holy; for I {\i am} holy.}

Be not wise in thine own eyes;\par\tab Fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:

But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah,\par\tab Searching all his innermost parts.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of {\i our} faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for {\i us} with groanings which cannot be uttered;

and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to {\i the will of} God.