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150 Bible verses for repentance of sins
If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing.
then, if my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.
For the leader. A psalm of David,Let me hear the sound of joy and gladness, so that the bones you crushed can rejoice.Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all my crimes.Create in me a clean heart, God; renew in me a resolute spirit.Don’t thrust me away from your presence, don’t take your Ruach Kodesh away from me.Restore my joy in your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me.Then I will teach the wicked your ways, and sinners will return to you.Rescue me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation! Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness —Adonai, open my lips; then my mouth will praise you.For you don’t want sacrifices, or I would give them; you don’t take pleasure in burnt offerings.My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God, you won’t spurn a broken, chastened heart.when Natan the prophet came to him after his affair with Bat-Sheva:
Let the wicked person abandon his way and the evil person his thoughts; let him return to Adonai, and he will have mercy on him; let him return to our God, for he will freely forgive.
I have not come to call the ‘righteous,’ but rather to call sinners to turn to God from their sins.”
Or perhaps you despise the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience; because you don’t realize that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to turn from your sins.
Kefa answered them, “Turn from sin, return to God, and each of you be immersed on the authority of Yeshua the Messiah into forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh!
He who conceals his sins will not succeed; he who confesses and abandons them will gain mercy.
I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.
“Come now,” says Adonai, “let’s talk this over together. Even if your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; even if they are red as crimson, they will be like wool.
When I acknowledged my sin to you, when I stopped concealing my guilt, and said, “I will confess my offenses to Adonai”; then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)
From that time on, Yeshua began proclaiming, “Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!”
“However, if the wicked person repents of all the sins he committed, keeps my laws and does what is lawful and right; then he will certainly live, he will not die.None of the transgressions he has committed will be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done, he will live.Do I take any pleasure at all in having the wicked person die?” asks Adonai Elohim. “Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from his sins.
“Yet even now,” says Adonai, “turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping and lamenting.”Tear your heart, not your garments; and turn to Adonai your God. For he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in grace, and willing to change his mind about disaster.
As for you, go and learn what this means: ‘I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifices.’ For I didn’t come to call the ‘righteous,’ but sinners!”
For this is what Adonai Elohim, the Holy One of Isra’el, says: “Returning and resting is what will save you; calmness and confidence will make you strong — but you want none of this!
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have committed crimes against Adonai your God, that you were promiscuous with strangers under every green tree, and that you have not paid attention to my voice,” says Adonai.
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Clean your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded people!
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you; I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
“In the past, God overlooked such ignorance; but now he is commanding all people everywhere to turn to him from their sins.
and in his name repentance leading to forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to people from all nations, starting with Yerushalayim.
Like a thick cloud, I wipe away your offenses; like a cloud, your sins. Come back to me, for I have redeemed you.”
Yah, if you kept a record of sins, who, Adonai, could stand?But with you there is forgiveness, so that you will be feared.
“Isn’t Efrayim my very dear son, a child who delights me so? I speak about him all the time, I can’t help but recall him to mind. In sum, I deeply yearn for him; I will surely show him favor,” says Adonai.
My children, I am writing you these things so that you won’t sin. But if anyone does sin, we have Yeshua the Messiah, the Tzaddik, who pleads our cause with the Father.The person who keeps loving his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him that could make him trip.But the person who hates his brother is in the dark — yes, he is walking in the dark, and he doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.You children, I am writing you because your sins have been forgiven for his sake.You fathers, I am writing you because you have known him who has existed from the beginning. You young people, I am writing you because you have overcome the Evil One.You children, I have written you because you have known the Father. You fathers, I have written you because you have known him who has existed from the beginning. You young people, I have written you because you are strong — the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the Evil One.Do not love the world or the things of the world. If someone loves the world, then love for the Father is not in him;because all the things of the world — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life — are not from the Father but from the world.And the world is passing away, along with its desires. But whoever does God’s will remains forever.Children, this is the Last Hour. You have heard that an Anti-Messiah is coming; and in fact, many anti-Messiahs have arisen now — which is how we know that this is the Last Hour.They went out from us, but they weren’t part of us; for had they been part of us, they would have remained with us.Also, he is the kapparah for our sins — and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.
For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.
This is Adonai’s answer: “If you return — if I bring you back — you will stand before me. If you separate the precious from the base, you will be my spokesman. It will then be they who turn to you, not you who turn to them.
I’m going to 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; treat me like one of your hired workers.” ’
I, yes I, am the one who blots out your offenses for my own sake; I will not remember your sins.
On hearing these things, they stopped objecting and began to praise God, saying, “This means that God has enabled the Goyim as well to do t’shuvah and have life!”
She said, “No one, sir.” Yeshua said, “Neither do I condemn you. Now go, and don’t sin any more.”
In union with him, through the shedding of his blood, we are set free — our sins are forgiven; this accords with the wealth of the grace
then how much more the blood of the Messiah, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living God!
and said, “Yes! I tell you that unless you change and become like little children, you won’t even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
So it was that Yochanan the Immerser appeared in the desert, proclaiming an immersion involving turning to God from sin in order to be forgiven.
For thus says the High, Exalted One who lives forever, whose name is Holy: “I live in the high and holy place but also with the broken and humble, in order to revive the spirit of the humble and revive the hearts of the broken ones.
But Zakkai stood there and said to the Lord, “Here, Lord, I am giving half of all I own to the poor; and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay him back four times as much.”Yeshua said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, inasmuch as this man too is a son of Avraham.
On the contrary, I announced first in Dammesek, then in Yerushalayim and throughout Y’hudah, and also to the Goyim, that they should turn from their sins to God and then do deeds consistent with that repentance.
then, if they come to their senses in the land where they have been carried away captive, turn back and make their plea to you in the land of those who carried them off captive, saying, ‘We sinned, we acted wrongly, we behaved wickedly,’if, in the land of their enemies who carried them off captive, they return to you with all their heart and being and pray to you toward their own land, which you gave to their ancestors, toward the city you chose and toward the house I have built for your name;
The Spirit of Adonai Elohim is upon me, because Adonai has anointed me to announce good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted; to proclaim freedom to the captives, to let out into light those bound in the dark;
Therefore, house of Isra’el, I will judge each of you according to his ways,” says Adonai Elohim. “Repent, and turn yourselves away from all your transgressions, so that they will not be a stumblingblock that brings guilt upon you.Throw far away from yourselves all your crimes that you committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why should you die, house of Isra’el?
Who is a God like you, pardoning the sin and overlooking the crimes of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in grace.He will again have compassion on us, he will subdue our iniquities. You will throw all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Don’t remember my youthful sins or transgressions; but remember me according to your grace for the sake of your goodness, Adonai.
So here is a statement you can trust, one that fully deserves to be accepted: the Messiah came into the world to save sinners, and I’m the number one sinner!
But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God! Have mercy on me, sinner that I am!’
“Come to me, all of you who are struggling and burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.asking, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for someone else?”For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
declaring with utmost seriousness the same message to Jews and Greeks alike: turn from sin to God; and put your trust in our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.
Therefore, there is no longer any condemnation awaiting those who are in union with the Messiah Yeshua.
God, in your grace, have mercy on me; in your great compassion, blot out my crimes.Wash me completely from my guilt, and cleanse me from my sin.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the stake, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness — by his wounds you were healed.
But he was wounded because of our crimes, crushed because of our sins; the disciplining that makes us whole fell on him, and by his bruises* we are healed.
Some of you used to do these things. But you have cleansed yourselves, you have been set apart for God, you have come to be counted righteous through the power of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and the Spirit of our God.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners.
Trust in Adonai with all your heart; do not rely on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him; then he will level your paths.
Examine me, God, and know my heart; test me, and know my thoughts.See if there is in me any hurtful way, and lead me along the eternal way.
In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards of the ‘olam hazeh. Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree that what he wants is good, satisfying and able to succeed.
Say to them, ‘As I live,’ swears Adonai Elohim, ‘I take no pleasure in having the wicked person die, but in having the wicked person turn from his way and live. So repent! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, house of Isra’el?’
Don’t bring your servant to trial, since in your sight no one alive would be considered righteous.
There is salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!”
May the God of shalom make you completely holy — may your entire spirit, soul and body be kept blameless for the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
since all have sinned and come short of earning God’s praise.By God’s grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua.
Therefore, leaving behind the initial lessons about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of turning from works that lead to death, trusting God,
For you have been delivered by grace through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but God’s gift.You were not delivered by your own actions; therefore no one should boast.
Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation — the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and new!
No, I tell you. Rather, unless you turn to God from your sins, you will all die as they did!
Through them your servant is warned; in obeying them there is great reward.Who can discern unintentional sins? Cleanse me from hidden faults.
Therefore, my dear friends, since we have these promises, let us purify ourselves from everything that can defile either body or spirit, and strive to be completely holy, out of reverence for God.
Had I cherished evil thoughts, Adonai would not have listened.But in fact, God did listen; he paid attention to my prayer.Sing the glory of his name, make his praise glorious.Blessed be God, who did not reject my prayer or turn his grace away from me.
Yeshua said, “I AM the Way — and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through me.
So, since we have come to be considered righteous by God because of our trust, let us continue to have shalom with God through our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.
if our hearts know something against us, God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.Dear friends, if our hearts know nothing against us, we have confidence in approaching God;
His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son — ’
The prayer offered with trust will heal the one who is ill — the Lord will restore his health; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.Therefore, openly acknowledge your sins to one another, and pray for each other, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Also he should be gentle as he corrects his opponents. For God may perhaps grant them the opportunity to turn from their sins, acquire full knowledge of the truth,come to their senses and escape the trap of the Adversary, after having been captured alive by him to do his will.
Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will certainly not turn away.
So if you are offering your gift at the Temple altar and you remember there that your brother has something against you,leave your gift where it is by the altar, and go, make peace with your brother. Then come back and offer your gift.
Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the kapparah for our sins.
Therefore, let us approach the Holiest Place with a sincere heart, in the full assurance that comes from trusting — with our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
then, so far as your former way of life is concerned, you must strip off your old nature, because your old nature is thoroughly rotted by its deceptive desires;and you must let your spirits and minds keep being renewed,and clothe yourselves with the new nature created to be godly, which expresses itself in the righteousness and holiness that flow from the truth.
Didn’t I myself make all these things? This is how they all came to be,” says Adonai. “The kind of person on whom I look with favor is one with a poor and humble spirit, who trembles at my word.
Afterwards Yeshua found him in the Temple court and said to him, “See, you are well! Now stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you!”
This is the confidence we have in his presence: if we ask anything that accords with his will, he hears us.And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — then we know that we have what we have asked from him.
Therefore, submit to God. Moreover, take a stand against the Adversary, and he will flee from you.
Keep pursuing shalom with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Brothers, I, for my part, do not think of myself as having yet gotten hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what is behind me and straining forward toward what lies ahead,I keep pursuing the goal in order to win the prize offered by God’s upward calling in the Messiah Yeshua.
for we must all appear before the Messiah’s court of judgment, where everyone will receive the good or bad consequences of what he did while he was in the body.
Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Yeshua have put their old nature to death on the stake, along with its passions and desires.
No temptation has seized you beyond what people normally experience, and God can be trusted not to allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. On the contrary, along with the temptation he will also provide the way out, so that you will be able to endure.
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of his Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin.
he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Y’hudah and Binyamin! Adonai is with you, as long as you are with him; if you seek him, you will find him; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you!
Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the right time he may lift you up.Throw all your anxieties upon him, because he cares about you.
It’s true that I am immersing you in water so that you might turn from sin to God; but the one coming after me is more powerful than I — I’m not worthy even to carry his sandals — and he will immerse you in the Ruach HaKodesh and in fire.
Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted; and forgive each other, just as in the Messiah God has also forgiven you.
Then he said, “Yeshua, remember me when you come as King.”Yeshua said to him, “Yes! I promise that you will be with me today in Gan-‘Eden.”
For the leader. A psalm of David: Adonai, you have probed me, and you know me.even there your hand would lead me, your right hand would hold me fast.If I say, “Let darkness surround me, let the light around me be night,”even darkness like this is not too dark for you; rather, night is as clear as day, darkness and light are the same.For you fashioned my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb.I thank you because I am awesomely made, wonderfully; your works are wonders — I know this very well.My bones were not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.Your eyes could see me as an embryo, but in your book all my days were already written; my days had been shaped before any of them existed.God, how I prize your thoughts! How many of them there are!If I count them, there are more than grains of sand; if I finish the count, I am still with you.God, if only you would kill off the wicked! Men of blood, get away from me!You know when I sit and when I stand up, you discern my inclinations from afar,
but those who hope in Adonai will renew their strength, they will soar aloft as with eagles’ wings; when they are running they won’t grow weary, when they are walking they won’t get tired.
All the prophets bear witness to him, that everyone who puts his trust in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
“Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who keeps asking receives; he who keeps seeking finds; and to him who keeps knocking, the door will be opened.
“Yes, indeed,” Yeshua answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness.”
Adonai is close to all who call on him, to all who sincerely call on him.He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.
But now this is what Adonai says, he who created you, Ya‘akov, he who formed you, Isra’el: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I am calling you by your name; you are mine.
Through immersion into his death we were buried with him; so that just as, through the glory of the Father, the Messiah was raised from the dead, likewise we too might live a new life.
So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps you will yet be forgiven for holding such a thought in your heart.
For God’s grace, which brings deliverance, has appeared to all people.It teaches us to renounce godlessness and worldly pleasures, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives now, in this age;
Because of this, I tell you that her sins — which are many! — have been forgiven, because she loved much. But someone who has been forgiven only a little loves only a little.”
For you used to be darkness; but now, united with the Lord, you are light. Live like children of light,
For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness,godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away.
Then Kefa came up and said to him, “Rabbi, how often can my brother sin against me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven times?”“No, not seven times,” answered Yeshua, “but seventy times seven!
May lying lips be struck dumb, that speak insolently against the righteous with such pride and contempt.
Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.On that day, if someone is on the roof with his belongings in his house, he must not go down to take them away. Similarly, if someone is in the field, he must not turn back —remember Lot’s wife!Whoever aims at preserving his own life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will stay alive.I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed — one will be taken and the other left behind.There will be two women grinding grain together — one will be taken and the other left behind.”They asked him, “Where, Lord?” He answered, “Wherever there’s a dead body, that’s where the vultures gather.”Also, if seven times in one day he sins against you, and seven times he comes to you and says, ‘I repent,’ you are to forgive him.”
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers, neither what exists nor what is coming,neither powers above nor powers below, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which comes to us through the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.
For Yochanan came to you showing the path to righteousness, and you wouldn’t trust him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes trusted him; but you, even after you saw this, didn’t change your minds later and trust him.
God has exalted this man at his right hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven.
Do not be so very angry, Adonai! Don’t remember crime forever. Look, please, we are all your people.
So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us, too, put aside every impediment — that is, the sin which easily hampers our forward movement — and keep running with endurance in the contest set before us,For they disciplined us only for a short time and only as best they could; but he disciplines us in a way that provides genuine benefit to us and enables us to share in his holiness.Now, all discipline, while it is happening, does indeed seem painful, not enjoyable; but for those who have been trained by it, it later produces its peaceful fruit, which is righteousness.So, strengthen your drooping arms, and steady your tottering knees;and make a level path for your feet; so that what has been injured will not get wrenched out of joint but rather will be healed.Keep pursuing shalom with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.See to it that no one misses out on God’s grace, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and thus contaminates many,and that no one is sexually immoral, or godless like Esav, who in exchange for a single meal gave up his rights as the firstborn.For you know that afterwards, when he wanted to obtain his father’s blessing, he was rejected; indeed, even though he sought it with tears, his change of heart was to no avail.For you have not come to a tangible mountain, to an ignited fire, to darkness, to murk, to a whirlwind,to the sound of a shofar, and to a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further message be given to them —looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua — who, in exchange for obtaining the joy set before him, endured execution on a stake as a criminal, scorning the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Similarly, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we don’t know how to pray the way we should. But the Spirit himself pleads on our behalf with groanings too deep for words;and the one who searches hearts knows exactly what the Spirit is thinking, because his pleadings for God’s people accord with God’s will.