150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

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

Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, in whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

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

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

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

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the Lord.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

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

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

If You, O Lord, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

For the sake of Your name, O Lord, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.

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 this is what the Lord says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”

For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.

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

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will repay it fourfold.”Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham.

First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O Lord.

This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

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

I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,not by works, so that no one can boast.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

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

Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns aside from evil.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the Lord. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

O Lord, You have searched me and known me.even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

But those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.

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

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Now this is what the Lord says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?”Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!

How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!

you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.

My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O Lord, I will seek.

Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.Remember Lot’s wife!Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other left.Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.” “Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching out his inmost being.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it. Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed. Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.