150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

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

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out, that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

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

Be gracious to me, God, according to Your faithful love; according to Your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion.God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.Do not banish me from Your presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me.Restore the joy of Your salvation to me, and give me a willing spirit.Then I will teach the rebellious Your ways, and sinners will return to You.Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it; You are not pleased with a burnt offering.The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build the walls of Jerusalem.Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.Wash away my guilt and cleanse me from my sin.

Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

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

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

“Repent,” Peter said to them, “and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don’t need repentance.

“Come, let us discuss this,” 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 be like wool.

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

From then on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near! ”

“Now if the wicked person turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will certainly live; he will not die.None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. He will live because of the righteousness he has practiced.Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? ” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Instead, don’t I take pleasure when he turns from his ways and lives?

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Even now — this is the Lord’s declaration — turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in faithful love, and He relents from sending disaster.

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “You will be delivered by returning and resting; your strength will lie in quiet confidence. But you are not willing.”

Only acknowledge your guilt — you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You have scattered your favors to strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice. This is the Lord’s declaration.

I tell you, in the same way, 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, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!

Therefore produce fruit consistent 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.

So I confess my guilt; I am anxious because of my sin.

“Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,

and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

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

Yahweh, if You considered sins, Lord, who could stand?But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be revered.

After I returned, I repented; 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 the brokenhearted; He saves those crushed in spirit.

Because of Your name, Yahweh, forgive my sin, for it is great.

My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father — Jesus Christ the Righteous One.The one who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he’s going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven because of Jesus’ name.I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know the One who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have had victory over the evil one.I have written to you, children, because you have come to know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have come to know the One who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, God’s word remains in you, and you have had victory over the evil one.Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.For everything that belongs to the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle — is not from the Father, but is from the world.And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.Children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard, “Antichrist is coming,” even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that 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. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

Fools mock at making restitution, but there is goodwill 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 noble words, rather than worthless ones, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must return to you; you must not return to them.

I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.’

He adds: I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts.

“It is I who sweep away your transgressions for My own sake and remember your sins no more.

When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, “So God has granted repentance resulting in life even to the Gentiles! ”

“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive, rich in faithful love to all who call on You.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.

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

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

“I assure you,” He said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

For the High and Exalted One who lives forever, whose name is Holy says this: “I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much! ”“Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition You in their captors’ land: “We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”and when they return to You with their whole mind and heart in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of their land that You gave their ancestors, the city You have chosen, and the temple I have built for Your name,

The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners;

“Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so they will not be a stumbling block that causes your punishment.Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

Who is a God like You, removing iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of His inheritance? He does not hold on to His anger forever, because He delights in faithful love.He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my acts of rebellion; in keeping with Your faithful love, remember me because of Your goodness, Lord.

This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” — and I am the worst of them.

I thought about my ways and turned my steps back to Your decrees.

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me — a sinner! ’

“Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves.and asked Him, “Are You the One who is to come, or should we expect someone else? ”For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus,

For I am conscious of my rebellion, and my sin is always before me.Against You — You alone — I have sinned and done this evil in Your sight. So You are right when You pass sentence; You are blameless when You judge.

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; you have been healed by His wounds.

Those who mourn are blessed, for they will be comforted.

I wander like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commands.

But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds.

And some of you used to be like this. 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 own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding;think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths.

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

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Tell them: As I live” — the declaration of the Lord God — “I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel?

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.”

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

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

Therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift —not from works, so that no one can boast.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!

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

Who perceives his unintentional sins? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.Moreover, keep Your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be innocent and cleansed from blatant rebellion.

Therefore, dear friends, since we have such promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, completing our sanctification in the fear of God.

If I had been aware of malice in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.However, God has listened; He has paid attention to the sound of my prayer.Sing about the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.May God be praised! He has not turned away my prayer or turned His faithful love from me.

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

Wickedness is atoned for by loyalty and faithfulness, and one turns from evil by the fear of the Lord.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

even if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience, and He knows all things.Dear friends, if our conscience doesn’t condemn us, we have confidence before God

For troubles without number have surrounded me; my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my courage leaves me.

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.’

The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will restore him to health; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.

instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil’s trap, having been captured by him to do 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 cast out.

So if you are offering your gift on the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;you are being renewed in the spirit of your minds;you put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.

My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and trembles at My word.

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for.

Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness — without it no one will see the Lord.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or worthless.

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

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.

But if we walk in the light as He Himself 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, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time,casting all your care on Him, because He cares about you.

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the One who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to remove His sandals. He Himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

I have sought Your favor 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 He said to him, “I assure you: Today you will be with Me in paradise.”

Lord, You have searched me and known me.even there Your hand will lead me; Your right hand will hold on to me.If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light around me will be night” —even the darkness is not dark to You. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to You.For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.I will praise You because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and I know this very well.My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the depths of the earth.Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.God, how difficult Your thoughts are for me to comprehend; how vast their sum is!If I counted them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; when I wake up, I am still with You.God, if only You would kill the wicked — you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me —You know when I sit down and when I stand up; You understand my thoughts from far away.

but those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint.

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

“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

The Lord is near all who call out to Him, all who call out to Him with integrity.He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry for help and saves them.

I love those who love me, and those who search for me 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 — the One who created you, Jacob, and the One who formed you, Israel — “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

For the grace of God has appeared with salvation for all people,instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age,

The Lord helps all who fall; He raises up all who are oppressed.

Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is 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 supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how many times could my brother sin against me and I forgive him? As many as seven times? ”“I tell you, not as many as seven,” Jesus said to him, “but 70 times seven.

How great is Your goodness that You have stored up for those who fear You and accomplished in the sight of everyone for those who take refuge in You.

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

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

My heart says this about You, “You are to seek My face.” Lord, I will seek Your face.

Be on your guard. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.It will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back.Remember Lot’s wife!Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other will be left.Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.Two will be in a field: One will be taken, and the other will be left. ”“Where, Lord? ” they asked Him. He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and comes back to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers,height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him. Tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, when you saw it, didn’t even change your minds then and believe him.

God exalted this man to His right hand as ruler and Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

He forgives all your sin; He heals all your diseases.

for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.

Don’t consider yourself to be wise; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Yet Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we all are the work of Your hands.

The Lord’s lamp sheds light on a person’s life, searching the innermost parts.

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness.No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it.Therefore strengthen your tired hands and weakened knees,and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness — without it no one will see the Lord.Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal.For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he didn’t find any opportunity for repentance, though he sought it with tears.For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm,to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of words. (Those who heard it begged that not another word be spoken to them,keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.And He who searches the hearts knows the Spirit’s mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.