150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing.

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that he will forgive your sins. If you do,

if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.

Be merciful to me, O God, because of your constant love. Because of your great mercy wipe away my sins!Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal spirit in me.Do not banish me from your presence; do not take your holy spirit away from me.Give me again the joy that comes from your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.Then I will teach sinners your commands, and they will turn back to you.Spare my life, O God, and save me, and I will gladly proclaim your righteousness.Help me to speak, Lord, and I will praise you.You do not want sacrifices, or I would offer them; you are not pleased with burnt offerings.My sacrifice is a humble spirit, O God; you will not reject a humble and repentant heart.O God, be kind to Zion and help her; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.Then you will be pleased with proper sacrifices and with our burnt offerings; and bulls will be sacrificed on your altar.Wash away all my evil and make me clean from my sin!

Let the wicked leave their way of life and change their way of thinking. Let them turn to the Lord, our God; he is merciful and quick to forgive.

I have not come to call respectable people to repent, but outcasts.”

Or perhaps you despise his great kindness, tolerance, and patience. Surely you know that God is kind, because he is trying to lead you to repent.

Peter said to them, “Each one of you must turn away from your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven; and you will receive God's gift, the Holy Spirit.

You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you.

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

The Lord says, “Now, let's settle the matter. You are stained red with sin, but I will wash you as clean as snow. Although your stains are deep red, you will be as white as wool.

Then I confessed my sins to you; I did not conceal my wrongdoings. I decided to confess them to you, and you forgave all my sins.

From that time Jesus began to preach his message: “Turn away from your sins, because the Kingdom of heaven is near!”

“If someone evil stops sinning and keeps my laws, if he does what is right and good, he will not die; he will certainly live.All his sins will be forgiven, and he will live, because he did what is right.Do you think I enjoy seeing evil people die?” asks the Sovereign Lord. “No, I would rather see them repent and live.

The Lord is not slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead, he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins.

Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal spirit in me.

“But even now,” says the Lord, “repent sincerely and return to me with fasting and weeping and mourning.Let your broken heart show your sorrow; tearing your clothes is not enough.” Come back to the Lord your God. He is kind and full of mercy; he is patient and keeps his promise; he is always ready to forgive and not punish.

Go and find out what is meant by the scripture that says: ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.’ I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts.”

The Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says to the people, “Come back and quietly trust in me. Then you will be strong and secure.” But you refuse to do it.

Only admit that you are guilty and that you have rebelled against the Lord, your God. Confess that under every green tree you have given your love to foreign gods and that you have not obeyed my commands. I, the Lord, have spoken.

In the same way, I tell you, the angels of God rejoice over one sinner who repents.”

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!

Do those things that will show that you have turned from your sins.

I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.

I confess my sins; they fill me with anxiety.

God has overlooked the times when people did not know him, but now he commands all of them everywhere to turn away from their evil ways.

and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

I have swept your sins away like a cloud. Come back to me; I am the one who saves you.”

If you kept a record of our sins, who could escape being condemned?But you forgive us, so that we should stand in awe of you.

We turned away from you, but soon we wanted to return. After you had punished us, we hung our heads in grief. We were ashamed and disgraced because we sinned when we were young.’

The Lord is near to those who are discouraged; he saves those who have lost all hope.

Keep your promise, Lord, and forgive my sins, for they are many.

I am writing this to you, my children, so that you will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have someone who pleads with the Father on our behalf—Jesus Christ, the righteous one.If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin.But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.I write to you, my children, because your sins are forgiven for the sake of Christ.I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you have defeated the Evil One.I write to you, my children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong; the word of God lives in you, and you have defeated the Evil One.Do not love the world or anything that belongs to the world. If you love the world, you do not love the Father.Everything that belongs to the world—what the sinful self desires, what people see and want, and everything in this world that people are so proud of—none of this comes from the Father; it all comes from the world.The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but those who do the will of God live forever.My children, the end is near! You were told that the Enemy of Christ would come; and now many enemies of Christ have already appeared, and so we know that the end is near.These people really did not belong to our fellowship, and that is why they left us; if they had belonged to our fellowship, they would have stayed with us. But they left so that it might be clear that none of them really belonged to us.And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.

Foolish people don't care if they sin, but good people want to be forgiven.

For sin pays its wage—death; but God's free gift is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our sins from us.

To this the Lord replied, “If you return, I will take you back, and you will be my servant again. If instead of talking nonsense you proclaim a worthwhile message, you will be my prophet again. The people will come back to you, and you will not need to go to them.

I will get up and go to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against God and against you.I am no longer fit to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired workers.”’

And then he says, “I will not remember their sins and evil deeds any longer.”

And yet, I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am. I will not hold your sins against you.

When they heard this, they stopped their criticism and praised God, saying, “Then God has given to the Gentiles also the opportunity to repent and live!”

“No one, sir,” she answered. “Well, then,” Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, but do not sin again.”]

You are good to us and forgiving, full of constant love for all who pray to you.

My sacrifice is a humble spirit, O God; you will not reject a humble and repentant heart.

For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. How great is the grace of God,

Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.

and said, “I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven.

So John appeared in the desert, baptizing and preaching. “Turn away from your sins and be baptized,” he told the people, “and God will forgive your sins.”

“I am the high and holy God, who lives forever. I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are humble and repentant, so that I can restore their confidence and hope.

Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Listen, sir! I will give half my belongings to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay back four times as much.”Jesus said to him, “Salvation has come to this house today, for this man, also, is a descendant of Abraham.

First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.

listen to your people's prayers. If there in that land they repent and pray to you, confessing how sinful and wicked they have been, hear their prayers, O Lord.If in that land they truly and sincerely repent and pray to you as they face toward this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you,

The Sovereign Lord has filled me with his Spirit. He has chosen me and sent me To bring good news to the poor, To heal the broken-hearted, To announce release to captives And freedom to those in prison.

“Now I, the Sovereign Lord, am telling you Israelites that I will judge each of you by what you have done. Turn away from all the evil you are doing, and don't let your sin destroy you.Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

There is no other god like you, O Lord; you forgive the sins of your people who have survived. You do not stay angry forever, but you take pleasure in showing us your constant love.You will be merciful to us once again. You will trample our sins underfoot and send them to the bottom of the sea!

Forgive the sins and errors of my youth. In your constant love and goodness, remember me, Lord!

This is a true saying, to be completely accepted and believed: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am the worst of them,

I have considered my conduct, and I promise to follow your instructions.

But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’

“Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest.“Tell us,” they asked Jesus, “are you the one John said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?”For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light.”

To Jews and Gentiles alike I gave solemn warning that they should turn from their sins to God and believe in our Lord Jesus.

There is no condemnation now for those who live in union with Christ Jesus.

I recognize my faults; I am always conscious of my sins.I have sinned against you—only against you— and done what you consider evil. So you are right in judging me; you are justified in condemning me.

Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed.

“Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them!

I wander about like a lost sheep; so come and look for me, your servant, because I have not neglected your laws.

But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received.

Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

But God has shown us how much he loves us—it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know.Remember the Lord in everything you do, and he will show you the right way.

Examine me, O God, and know my mind; test me, and discover my thoughts.Find out if there is any evil in me and guide me in the everlasting way.

Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God—what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.

Tell them that as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God, I do not enjoy seeing sinners die. I would rather see them stop sinning and live. Israel, stop the evil you are doing. Why do you want to die?

Don't put me, your servant, on trial; no one is innocent in your sight.

Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us.”

May the God who gives us peace make you holy in every way and keep your whole being—spirit, soul, and body—free from every fault at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

everyone has sinned and is far away from God's saving presence.But by the free gift of God's grace all are put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free.

Let us go forward, then, to mature teaching and leave behind us the first lessons of the Christian message. We should not lay again the foundation of turning away from useless works and believing in God;

For it is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of your own efforts, but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it.

Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.

No indeed! And I tell you that if you do not turn from your sins, you will all die as they did.

Forgive us the wrongs we have done, as we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us.

None of us can see our own errors; deliver me, Lord, from hidden faults!Keep me safe, also, from willful sins; don't let them rule over me. Then I shall be perfect and free from the evil of sin.

All these promises are made to us, my dear friends. So then, let us purify ourselves from everything that makes body or soul unclean, and let us be completely holy by living in awe of God.

If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.But God has indeed heard me; he has listened to my prayer.Sing to the glory of his name; offer him glorious praise!I praise God, because he did not reject my prayer or keep back his constant love from me.

Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

Be loyal and faithful, and God will forgive your sin. Obey the Lord and nothing evil will happen to you.

Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

If our conscience condemns us, we know that God is greater than our conscience and that he knows everything.And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence.

I am surrounded by many troubles— too many to count! My sins have caught up with me, and I can no longer see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and I have lost my courage.

‘Father,’ the son said, ‘I have sinned against God and against you. I am no longer fit to be called your son.’

This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven.So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.

who is gentle as you correct your opponents, for it may be that God will give them the opportunity to repent and come to know the truth.And then they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the Devil, who had caught them and made them obey his will.

Before you punished me, I used to go wrong, but now I obey your word.

Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me,

So if you are about to offer your gift to God at the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there in front of the altar, go at once and make peace with your brother, and then come back and offer your gift to God.

This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.

So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.

So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to—the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires.Your hearts and minds must be made completely new,and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.

I myself created the whole universe! I am pleased with those who are humble and repentant, who fear me and obey me.

Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said, “Listen, you are well now; so stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

We have courage in God's presence, because we are sure that he hears us if we ask him for anything that is according to his will.He hears us whenever we ask him; and since we know this is true, we know also that he gives us what we ask from him.

So then, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you.

Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it.

Of course, my friends, I really do not think that I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead.So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above.

For all of us must appear before Christ, to be judged by him. We will each receive what we deserve, according to everything we have done, good or bad, in our bodily life.

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and desires.

Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.

But if we live in the light—just as he is in the light—then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.

and he went to meet King Asa. He called out, “Listen to me, King Asa, and all you people of Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you as long as you are with him. If you look for him, he will let you find him, but if you turn away, he will abandon you.

Humble yourselves, then, under God's mighty hand, so that he will lift you up in his own good time.Leave all your worries with him, because he cares for you.

I baptize you with water to show that you have repented, but the one who will come after me will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. He is much greater than I am; and I am not good enough even to carry his sandals.

Instead, be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one another, as God has forgiven you through Christ.

I ask you with all my heart to have mercy on me, as you have promised!

And he said to Jesus, “Remember me, Jesus, when you come as King!”Jesus said to him, “I promise you that today you will be in Paradise with me.”

Lord, you have examined me and you know me. you would be there to lead me, you would be there to help me.I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night,but even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you.You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb.I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart.When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother's womb, when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there—you saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.O God, how difficult I find your thoughts; how many of them there are!If I counted them, they would be more than the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked! How I wish violent people would leave me alone!You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts.

But those who trust in the Lord for help will find their strength renewed. They will rise on wings like eagles; they will run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak.

All the prophets spoke about him, saying that all who believe in him will have their sins forgiven through the power of his name.”

“Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will find, and the door will be opened to those who knock.

Jesus answered, “I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born again.”

Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.

He is near to those who call to him, who call to him with sincerity.He supplies the needs of those who honor him; he hears their cries and saves them.

I love those who love me; whoever looks for me can find me.

Remove my sin, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Israel, the Lord who created you says, “Do not be afraid—I will save you. I have called you by name—you are mine.

By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.

Repent, then, of this evil plan of yours, and pray to the Lord that he will forgive you for thinking such a thing as this.

For God has revealed his grace for the salvation of all people.That grace instructs us to give up ungodly living and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this world,

He helps those who are in trouble; he lifts those who have fallen.

I tell you, then, the great love she has shown proves that her many sins have been forgiven. But whoever has been forgiven little shows only a little love.”

You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord's people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light,

For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness;to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.But if you do not have them, you are so shortsighted that you cannot see and have forgotten that you have been purified from your past sins.

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” answered Jesus, “but seventy times seven,

How wonderful are the good things you keep for those who honor you! Everyone knows how good you are, how securely you protect those who trust you.

he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.

Give me again the joy that comes from your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.

When you said, “Come worship me,” I answered, “I will come, Lord.”

So watch what you do! “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 someone who is on the roof of a house must not go down into the house to get any belongings; in the same way anyone who is out in the field must not go back to the house.Remember Lot's wife!Those who try to save their own life will lose it; those who lose their life will save it.On that night, I tell you, there will be two people sleeping in the same bed: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.Two women will be grinding meal together: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.” The disciples asked him, “Where, Lord?” Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will gather.”If he sins against you seven times in one day, and each time he comes to you saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future,neither the world above nor the world below—there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.

For John the Baptist came to you showing you the right path to take, and you would not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. Even when you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.

God raised him to his right side as Leader and Savior, to give the people of Israel the opportunity to repent and have their sins forgiven.

He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.

The scripture says, “Be holy because I am holy.”

Never let yourself think that you are wiser than you are; simply obey the Lord and refuse to do wrong.

But you are our father, Lord. We are like clay, and you are like the potter. You created us,

The Lord gave us mind and conscience; we cannot hide from ourselves.

As for us, we have this large crowd of witnesses around us. So then, let us rid ourselves of everything that gets in the way, and of the sin which holds on to us so tightly, and let us run with determination the race that lies before us.Our human fathers punished us for a short time, as it seemed right to them; but God does it for our own good, so that we may share his holiness.When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees!Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed. Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it.Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau, who for a single meal sold his rights as the older son.Afterward, you know, he wanted to receive his father's blessing; but he was turned back, because he could not find any way to change what he had done, even though in tears he looked for it. You have not come, as the people of Israel came, to what you can feel, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm,the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice. When the people heard the voice, they begged not to hear another word,Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

In the same way the Spirit also comes to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray; the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot express.And God, who sees into our hearts, knows what the thought of the Spirit is; because the Spirit pleads with God on behalf of his people and in accordance with his will.