150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted in order to wipe away your sins, so that times of refreshing may come 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 I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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

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

Or do thou despise the wealth of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God guides thee to repentance?

And Peter said to them, Repent ye, and be immersed each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

I say to you, that thus there will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance.

Come now, and let us reason together, says LORD, 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 to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent ye, for the kingdom of the heavens has approached.

But if a wicked man turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done he shall live.Have I any pleasure in the death of a wicked man? says lord LORD, and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.

But after going, learn what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners for repentance.

For thus said lord LORD, the Holy One of Israel, Ye shall be saved in returning and rest. Your strength shall be in quietness and in confidence. And ye would not,

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

Thus I say to you, there becomes joy in the presence of the agents of God over one sinner who repents.

Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit 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 my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands for all men everywhere to repent.

and to proclaim in his name repentance and remission of sins for all the nations, having begun from Jerusalem.

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

If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou may be feared.

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

LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

My little children, I write these things to you so that ye may not sin. And if any man does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--righteous Jesus Christ.And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.

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

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Therefore thus says LORD: If thou return, then I will bring thee again that thou may stand before me. And if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shall be as my mouth. They shall return to thee, but thou shall not retur

After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to 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 men.

and, Their sins and their lawlessness I will, no, not further remember.

I, even I, am he who blots out thy transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

And when they heard these things, they relaxed and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.

And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go, and henceforth sin no more.

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved for repentance. For ye were grieved toward God, so that ye might suffer loss from us in nothing.For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou will not despise.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,

how much more the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself unblemished to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order to serve a living God?

And he said, Truly I say to you, if ye are not turned, and become as children, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

It came to pass, that John was immersing in the wilderness and preaching an immersion of repentance for remission of sins.

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart o

And having stood, Zacchaeus said to the Lord, Behold, half of the things possessed by me, Lord, I give to the poor. And if I defrauded any man of anything, I repay fourfold.And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

yet if they shall rethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to thee in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we haveif they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to thee toward their land, which thou gave to their fathers, the city which thou have chosen, and t

that if thou will confess with thy mouth, Lord Jesus, and will believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou will be saved.For a man believes in the heart for righteousness, and he confesses with the mouth for salvation.

The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT), and

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, says lord LORD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which 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 to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread our iniquities under foot, and thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Faithful is the saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinful men, of whom I am foremost.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.

Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is befitting, and my burden is light.

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

Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and may prevail (LXX/NT) when thou are criticized (LXX/NT).

Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

Blessed are those who mourn, because they will be comforted.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek thy servant, 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 some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts,and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.

And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Say to them, As I live, says lord LORD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man 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. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

And salvation is not in any other man, for there is no other name under the heaven, that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you thoroughly. And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

Therefore having left the word of the primacy of Christ, let us be brought forward to perfection, not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you,not from works, so that not any man may boast.

So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

I tell you, no, but if ye do not repent, ye will all perish similarly.

And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.

Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults].Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be upright, and I shall be clear from great transgression.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, LORD will not hear.But truly God has heard. He has attended to the voice of my prayer.Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.

Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, except by me.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.

Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

for innumerable evils have encompassed me around. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me.

And the son said to 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 will rescue him who is depressed, and the Lord will rouse him. And if he should be a man who has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.Confess ye the trespasses to each other, and pray for each other so that ye may be healed. A working supplication of a righteous man is very powerful.

in mildness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I observe thy word.

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and he who comes to me I will, no, not cast out.

If therefore thou should bring thy gift to the altar, and remember there that thy brother has anything against thee,leave there thy gift before the altar, and go. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then, after coming, bring thy gift.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

let us approach with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed in pure water.

for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou have become well. Sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.And if we know that he hears us, whatever we may ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.

Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead,I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad.

And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.

And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. LORD 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.

Therefore be lowered under the mighty hand of God, so that he may lift you up in time,having cast all your concern upon him, because he cares for you.

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

And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

I entreated thy favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to thy word.

And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou come into thy kingdom.And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to thee, today thou will be with me in the paradise.

O LORD, thou have searched me, and known.Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off.

But those who wait for LORD 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.

To this man all the prophets testify, that every man who believes in him, to receive remission of sins through his name.

Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, If any man is not begotten from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

LORD is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry and will save them.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.

Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

But now thus says LORD who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name, Thou are mine.

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

Repent therefore from this thine evil, and beg God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart will be forgiven thee.

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

LORD upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

For this reason I say to thee, her many sins are forgiven, because she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, loves little.

For ye were once darkness, but now light in Lord. Walk as children of light

Now this same thing also, having applied all eagerness, furnish in your faith, virtue, and in virtue, knowledge,and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, perseverance, and in perseverance, piety,and in piety, brotherly affection, and in brotherly affection, love.For these things existing in you and abounding, it leads to not being idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.For he in whom these things are not present is blind, being near-sighted, having deliberately forgotten the purification of his former sins.

Then Peter having come to him, he said, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?Jesus says to him, I say to thee, not until seven times, but until seventy times seven.

O how great is thy goodness, which thou have laid up for those who fear thee, which thou have wrought for those who take refuge in thee before the sons of men!

for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

My heart said to thee, I have sought thy face. O LORD, I will seek thy face.

Take heed to yourselves. And if thy brother should sin against thee, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times in the day turn back, saying, I repent, thou will forgive him.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor heavenly agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming,nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For John came to you in a way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him. And having seen it, ye did not repent afterward to believe him.

God exalted this man with his right hand, a Pathfinder and a Savior to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases,

because it is written, Become ye holy, since I am holy.

Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil.

But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.

The spirit of man is the lamp of LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mentality of the Spirit, because he appeals to God for the sanctified.