150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

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

Therefore repent and convert so that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

if My people, who are called by My name, shall 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.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.Wash me completely 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 Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

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

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

Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He who covers his sins shall not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them shall have mercy.

I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

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

I confessed my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess 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 is at hand.

But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he has committed, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.All his transgressions that he has done, they shall not be mentioned to him; in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Jehovah. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?

The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

Yet even now, says Jehovah, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.Yes, tear your heart and not your robes, and turn to Jehovah your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities because of the evil.

But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.

Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God 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 ones.

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance;

And I will 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 you a heart of flesh.

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

Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,

and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins; return to Me; for I have redeemed you.

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

Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was taught, I struck on my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, I even blushed, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.

Jehovah is near to the broken-hearted; and saves those who are of a contrite spirit.

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

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.And He is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world.

Fools laugh at sin, but among the righteous there is favor.

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

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

Therefore so says Jehovah, If you turn back, then I will bring you again; you shall stand before Me. And if you take the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth. Let them turn back to you, but do not return to them.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before youand am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.

also He adds, "their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."

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

When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance to life to the nations.

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

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

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.

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, 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 spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

and said, Truly I say to you, Unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.

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

For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

And Zaccheus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor. And in anything I accused anyone falsely, I restore it fourfold.And Jesus said to him, This day salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

But to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I made known the command to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance

yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly,and so return to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and if they pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, to the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name,

Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall 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 preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

So I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one of you according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah. Turn and be made to turn from all your sins; and iniquity shall not be your stumbling-block.Cast away from you all your sins by which you have sinned; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.He will turn again; He will have pity on us. He will trample 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 rebellings; according to Your mercy 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 standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!

Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.

testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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

He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Blessed are they that mourn! 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 wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed.

And such were some of you. But you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

But God commends His love toward us in that while we were 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 do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just.

And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at 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, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,not of works, lest anyone should boast.

So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

I tell you, No. But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

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

Who can understand his errors? Oh make me pure from secret faults;and keep Your servant back from presumptuous sins; do not let them rule over me; then I shall be upright, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.

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

If I regard iniquity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear;Surely God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.Blessed is 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 but by Me.

By mercy and truth, iniquity is purged, and by the fear of Jehovah men turn away from evil.

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

that if our heart accuses us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.Beloved, if our heart does not accuse us, we have confidence toward God.

For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that 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 am no more worthy to be called your son.

And the prayer of faith will cure the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much.

in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.

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

All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will in no way cast out.

Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,leave your gift there before the altar and go. 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 propitiation concerning our sins.

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

For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.And you should put on the new man, who according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.

For all those My hand has made, and all those exist, says Jehovah. But to this one I will look, to the afflicted and contrite spirit, and the one who trembles at My Word.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you are made whole. Sin no more lest a worse thing come to you.

And this is the confidence that 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 petitions that we desired of Him.

Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;

My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before,I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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

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

No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may 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 Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

And he went out to meet 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, so that He may exalt you in due time,casting all your anxiety onto Him, for He cares for you.

I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. But He who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

I looked for Your favor with all my heart; be merciful to me according to Your Word.

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

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

but those who wait on Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

All the Prophets give witness to Him, that through His name whoever believes in Him shall receive remission of sins.

Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.For each one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.

Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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

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

I love those who love me; and those who seek me early shall find me.

Purge 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 have called you by your name; you are Mine.

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that 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 this wickedness of yours, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

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

Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, he loves little.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge;and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness,and with godliness, brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness, love.For if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past.

Then Peter came to Him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Until seven times?Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, Until seven times; but, Until 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 men!

for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

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

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

Take heed to yourselves. If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.And if he trespasses against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to you, saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, 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 the harlots believed him. And when you had seen it, you did not repent afterwards so that you might believe him.

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

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

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

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

But now, O Jehovah, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our Former; and 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.

Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,looking 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 sat down at the right of the throne of God.

Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.And He searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.