150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

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

Therefore, repent, and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the face of the Lord,

and My people, on whom My name is called, shall be humbled, and shall pray, and shall seek My face, and shall turn back from their evil ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

To the chief musician, A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness, according to the multitude of Your tender mercies; blot out my transgressions.Multiply to wash me from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Let the wicked one forsake his way and the man of iniquity his thoughts, and let him turn back to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will multiply to pardon.

I did not come to call the righteous ones, but sinners to repentance.

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and the longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, each one of you on the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

One covering his transgressions will not prosper, but the one confessing and forsaking them shall have pity.

I say to you that so is joy in Heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.

Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool.

I confessed my sin to You, and I have not hidden my iniquity; I said, I will confess over my transgression to Jehovah; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.

But the wicked one, if he will turn from all his sins which he has done, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and righteousness, living he shall live; he shall not die.All his transgressions that he has done, they shall not be recalled to him in his righteousness which he has done; he shall live.Delighting, do I delight in the death of the wicked one? a statement of the Lord Jehovah. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?

The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing any to perish, but all to turn one’s self to repentance.

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

Yet even now turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with wailing, a statement of Jehovah.And tear your heart, and not your clothes; and turn to Jehovah your God. For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He has pity concerning you.

But going, learn what this is, “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.” For I did not come to call righteous ones, but sinners to repentance. Hos. 6:6

For so says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and confidence shall be your strength. But you were not willing.

Only know your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, a statement of Jehovah.

I say to you, So there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner repenting.

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners! And purify your hearts, double-souled ones!

Therefore, bring forth fruits worthy of repentance.

And I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

For I will confess my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin.

Indeed, therefore, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,

And repentance and remission of sins must be preached on His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud; and your sins like a cloud. Turn back to Me, for I have redeemed you.

If You will keep iniquities, O Jehovah, O Lord, who shall stand?But forgiveness is with You that You may be feared.

For after I had turned away, I repented; and after I knew, I slapped on my thigh. I was ashamed; yea, I also was shamed, because I lifted up the reproach of my youth.

Jehovah is near to the broken of heart; and He saves the crushed of spirit.

For Your name’s sake, O Jehovah, even pardon my iniquity for it is great.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.And He Himself is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the whole world.

Foolish ones laugh at guilt offering, but favor is among the upright ones.

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

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He put our transgressions from us.

So Jehovah says this: If you turn back, even I will bring you back; you shall stand before Me. And if you take the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth. They may turn back to you, but do not turn back to them.

Rising up, I will go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I sinned against Heaven and before you,and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.

“and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will not remember no longer, not ever.” MT-Jer. 31:33, 34

I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My sake; and I will not remember your sins.

And hearing these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God also gave to the nations repentance unto life.

And she said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I give judgment against you. Go, and sin no more.

For You, O Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all who call on You.

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, that you might suffer loss in nothing by us.For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation without regret. But the grief of the world works death.

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

in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of deviations, according to the riches of His grace

by how much more the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God), will purify your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God!

And He said, Truly I say to you, If not you be converted and become as the little children, you may not enter into the kingdom of Heaven, not ever!

John came baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

For so says the One being high and being lifted up, He who inhabits eternity, and Holy is His name: I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite one and the humble of spirit, to make live the spirit of the humble ones and to make live the heart of the contrite ones.

But standing, Zaccheus said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor ones. And if in anything I accused anyone falsely, I give it back fourfold.And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, for he also is a son of Abraham.

but firstly to the ones in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judea, and to the nations, I proclaimed the command to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.

and they turn their heart back in the land where they have been taken captive, and turn back, and make supplication to You in the land where they were captured, saying, We have sinned and done perversely; we have been wicked;and they have turned back to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and have prayed to You to the way of their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name,

Because if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me, because Jehovah has anointed Me to bear good news to the poor one. He has sent Me to bind up the broken of heart, to proclaim liberty to captives, and complete opening to the ones being bound;

I will judge you, each man by his ways, O house of Israel, a statement of the Lord Jehovah. Turn and be made to turn back from all your transgressions, and iniquity shall not be a stumbling-block to you.Cast away all your transgressions from you by which you have transgressed in them, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Who is a God like You, lifting off iniquity and passing by the transgression of the remnant of His possession? He does not make strong His anger forever, for He delights in mercy.He will return to pity us; He will subdue our iniquities. Yea, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my transgressions. According to Your mercy, You remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O Jehovah.

Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

I thought on my ways and turned my feet to Your testimonies.

And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner!

Come to Me, all those laboring and being burdened, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, “and you will find rest to your souls.” Jer. 6:16For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to the ones in Christ Jesus, not walking according to flesh, but according to Spirit.

For I know my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.Against You, You only, I have sinned, and done the evil in Your eyes; that You might be justified in Your speaking and be clear when You judge.

who “Himself carried up in His body our sins” onto the tree; that having died to sins, we might live to righteousness; of whom “by His wound you were healed.”

Blessed are the ones mourning! For they shall be comforted.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant; for I do not forget Your commandments.

But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His wounds we ourselves are healed.

And some were these things, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

but God demonstrates His love to us in that we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding;in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

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

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, in order to prove by you what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

Say to them, As I live, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, I do not have delight in the death of the wicked one, except in the evil one turning from his way, and so to live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

and do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for not anyone living is just in Your sight.

and there is salvation in no other One, for neither is there another name under Heaven having been given among men by which it is necessary for us to be saved.

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

for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God,being justified undeservedly by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

Therefore, having left the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be borne on to maturity, not laying down again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

for by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;not of works, that not anyone should boast;

So then if anyone is in Christ, that one is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have come to be new!

No, I say to you, But if you do not repent, you will all perish likewise.

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

Who can discern errors? Acquit me from secret faults,also withhold Your servant from arrogant sins; do not let them rule over me; then I shall be upright, and I shall be innocent from great transgression.

Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and of spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

If I had regarded iniquity in my heart, Jehovah would not have heard.Surely, God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer and His mercy from me!

Jesus says to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father if not through Me.

Iniquity is covered by mercy and truth, and in the fear of Jehovah men turn aside from evil ways.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

that if our heart condemns us, we know that God is greater than our heart and knows all things.Beloved ones, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence with God.

For evils have surrounded me until there is no number; my iniquities have taken hold on me and I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and no longer am I worthy to be called your son.

And the prayer of faith will save the one being sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he may have committed sin, it will be forgiven him.Confess to one another the deviations from the Law, and pray for one another, that you may be healed; being very strong, the prayer of a righteous one works effectually.

in meekness instructing the ones opposing, if perhaps God may give them repentance for a full knowledge of the truth,and they regained their senses out of the snare of the devil, being captured by him to do the will of that one.

Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.

All who the Father gives to Me shall come to Me, and the one coming to Me I will not cast out, not ever,

Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and remember there that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar, and go. First, be reconciled to your brother, and then, coming, offer your gift.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be a propitiation concerning our sins.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body having been washed in pure water;

for you to put off the old man, as regards the former behavior, the one being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and to put on the new man, the one being created according to God in righteousness and holiness of truth.

And My hand has made all these things, even all these things exist, a statement of Jehovah. But I will look toward this one, to the afflicted one, and to the contrite of spirit, even trembling at My Word.

After these things, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you have become well, sin no more that a worse thing not happen to you.

And this is the confidence we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have requested from Him.

Therefore be subject to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Eagerly pursue peace and holiness with all, without which no one will see the Lord,

Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching out for the things before,I am pursuing a goal for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.

For we all must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to what he did, whether good or bad.

But the ones belonging to Christ crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

No temptation has taken you if not a human one; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able. But with the temptation, He will also make the way out, so as for you to be able to bear it.

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

And he went out before Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Therefore, be humbled under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in time;“casting all your anxiety onto Him,” because it matters to Him concerning you. LXX-Psa. 54:23; MT-Psa. 55:22

I indeed baptize you in water to repentance; but He who is coming after me is stronger than me, whose sandals I am not able to lift. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, having forgiven one another, even as also God forgave you in Christ.

I entreated Your face with all my heart; favor me according to Your Word.

And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when You come in Your kingdom.And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with Me in Paradise.

To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, You have searched me and known me.You know my sitting down, and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar off.

but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew strength; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!

To this One all the Prophets witness, so that through His name everyone believing into Him will receive remission of sins.

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.For each one that asks receives, and the one that seeks finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.

Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, If one is not generated from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.

For He made the One who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Jehovah is near to all who call on Him, to all those who call on Him in truth.He will do the desire of the ones who fear Him; and He will hear their cry and save them.

I love those who love Me, and those who seek Me early find Me.

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

But now so says Jehovah who created you, O Jacob; and He who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I called you by your name; you are to Me.

Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

Repent, therefore, from this wickedness of you, and petition God if perhaps you will be forgiven the thought of your heart.

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,instructing us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live prudently and righteously and godly in the now age,

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

For this reason I say to you, Her many sins are remitted, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, he loves little.

for you then were darkness, but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light.

But also in this very thing having brought in all diligence, fully supply in your faith virtue, and with virtue knowledge,and with the knowledge self-control, and with the self-control patience, and with the patience godliness,and with the godliness brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.For these things being in you, and abounding, they will place you so as not to be idle, not unfruitful into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.For the one in whom these things are not present is blind, being shortsighted, receiving forgetfulness of the cleansing of his sins in time past.

Then coming near to Him, Peter said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, Up to seven times, but, Up to seventy times seven.

How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You; You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of mankind.

You were bought with a price; then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.

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

My heart said to You, Seek my face; Your face, O Jehovah, I will seek.

Take heed to yourselves. And if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.And if seven times in the day he sins against you, and seven times in the day returns to you saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax-collectors and the harlots believed him. And seeing, you did not care afterwards to believe him.

This One God has exalted as a Ruler and Savior to His right hand, to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins.

He who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;

because it has been written, “Be holy,” “because I am holy”. Lev. 19:2

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Jehovah and turn from evil.

But now, Jehovah, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You are our Former; yea, we all are the work of Your hand.

The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

So therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, having laid aside every weight and the easily surrounding sin, through patience let us also run the race being set before us,looking to the Author and Finisher of our faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, “and has sat down at the right hand” of the throne of God.”

And likewise the Spirit also joins in to help our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray as it is right, but the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with groanings that cannot be uttered.But the One searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He petitions on behalf of the saints according to God.