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150 Bible verses for repentance of sins
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Therefore repent and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the abundance of Your compassion, blot out my transgressions.Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.Restore unto me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with Your willing spirit.Then will I teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of Your righteousness.O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.Do good to Zion in Your good pleasure; build the walls of Jerusalem.Then You will be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Do you despise the riches of His goodness, tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.
Likewise, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous men who need no repentance.
Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not conceal. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all My statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be remembered against him. Because of his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, but rather that he should turn from his ways and live?
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness. But He is patient with us, because He does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
Yet even now, declares the Lord, return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.Rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents from punishing.
But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Yet you were not willing,
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says the Lord.
Likewise, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Also, I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and your sins, as a cloud. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
If you, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?But there is forgiveness with You, so that You may be feared.
Surely after I turned back, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself on my thigh; I was ashamed and even humiliated because I bore the reproach of my youth.”
My little children, I am writing these things to you, so that you do not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for His name’s sake.I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I am writing to you, little children, because you have known the Father.I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world.The world and its desires are passing away, but the one who does the will of God lives forever.Little children, it is the last hour. As you have heard that the antichrist will come, even now there are many antichrists. By this we know that it is the last hour.They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us. But they went out, revealing that none of them were of us.He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore thus says the Lord: If you return, then I will bring you back, and you shall stand before Me; and if you take out the precious from the worthless, you will be My spokesman. Let them return to you, but do not return to them.
I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’
I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
When they heard these things, they were silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then God has granted to the Gentiles also repentance unto life.”
She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
In Him we have redemption through His blood and the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace,
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I will repay him four times as much.”Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do works proving their repentance.
yet when they come to their senses while in the land where they were carried captives and repent and make supplication to You, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and have committed wickedness,’and so return to You with all their hearts and with all their souls in the land of their enemies, who carried them away as captives, and pray to You toward their land, which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord God. Repent, and turn away from all your transgressions so that iniquity shall not be your ruin.Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, O house of Israel?
Who is a God like You, bearing iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of His inheritance? He does not remain angry forever, because He delights in benevolence.He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread down our iniquities, and cast all of our sins into the depths of the sea.
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your lovingkindness remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
“But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but struck his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner.’
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me. For I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.and said to Him, “Are You He who should come, or should we look for another?”For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”
testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when you speak, and blameless when You pass judgment.
He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek out Your servant, for I forget not Your commandments.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.
Such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, and you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me, and know my thoughts!And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and complete will of God.
Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?
There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
May the very God of peace sanctify you completely. And I pray to God that your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Therefore, leaving the elementary principles of the teaching of Christ, let us go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God,not of works, so that no one should boast.
Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I will be upright, and I will be innocent of great transgression.
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me;but certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows everything.Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, then we have confidence before God.
For innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.
“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.Confess your faults to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much.
in gentleness instructing those in opposition. Perhaps God will grant them repentance to know the truth,and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
All whom the Father gives Me will come to Me, and he who comes to Me I will never cast out.
“Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar and go on your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse them from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
that you put off the former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,and be renewed in the spirit of your mind;and that you put on the new nature, which was created according to God in righteousness and true holiness.
For My hand made all those things, thus all those things have come to be, says the Lord. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My word.
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have become whole. Sin no more lest something worse happens to you.”
This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.So if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have whatever we asked of Him.
Brothers, I do not count myself to have attained, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,I press toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his recompense in the body, according to what he has done, whether it was good or bad.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, and He will not permit you to be tempted above what you can endure, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you all seek Him, He will be found with you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.Cast all your care upon Him, because He cares for you.
“I indeed baptize you with water to repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
O Lord, You have searched me and known me.even there shall Your hand lead me and Your right hand take hold of me.If I say, “Surely the darkness shall befall me, even the night about me shall be my light.”Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You and the night shines as the day, for darkness and light are alike with You.For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows right well.My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Your eyes saw my unformed substance. And in Your book were they all written, the days created for me, when as yet there were none of them.How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!Were I to count them, they would be in number more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, O bloodthirsty men!You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You perceive my thought from afar.
but those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.
To Him all the prophets bear witness that whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins through His name.”
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened.
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and will save them.
But now, thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.
Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Therefore repent of your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, righteously, and in godliness in this present world,
Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little loves little.”
For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light —
For this reason make every effort to add virtue to your faith; and to your virtue, knowledge;and to your knowledge, self-control; and to your self-control, patient endurance; and to your patient endurance, godliness;and to your godliness, brotherly kindness; and to your brotherly kindness, love.For if these things reside in you and abound, they ensure that you will neither be useless nor unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.For he who lacks these things is blind and nearsighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his past sins.
Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?”Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who take refuge in You before the sons of men!
You were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Take heed to yourselves. “If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.“So will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.On that day let him who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away. And likewise let him who is in the field not return to the things behind.Remember Lot’s wife.Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.I tell you, on that night two men will be in one bed; the one will be taken and the other will be left.Two women will be grinding grain together; the one will be taken and the other will be left.Two men will be in the field; the one will be taken and the other will be left.”They asked, “Where, Lord?” He replied, “Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together.”If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come,neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is 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 prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.
God exalted this Man to His right hand to be a Ruler and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; and we all are the work of Your hand.
The spirit of man is the light of the Lord, searching all the innermost depths of the heart.
Therefore, since we are encompassed with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.For they indeed disciplined us for a short time according to their own judgment, but He does so for our profit, that we may partake of His holiness.Now no discipline seems to be joyful at the time, but grievous. Yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness in those who have been trained by it.Therefore lift up your tired hands, and strengthen your weak knees.Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame go out of joint, but rather be healed.Pursue peace with all men, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord,watching diligently so that no one falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up to cause trouble, and many become defiled by it,lest there be any sexually immoral or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and storm,and to the sound of a trumpet and to a voice speaking words, such that those who heard them begged that the word not be spoken to them anymore.Let us look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses, for we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.