150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn of God’s long‐suff’ring grace? And whence this madness that insults th’ Almighty to his face? 2 Is it because his patience waits, and pitying bowels move, You multiply transgressions more, and scorn his offer’d love? 3 Dost thou not know, self‐blinded man! his goodness is design’d To wake repentance in thy soul, and melt thy harden’d mind? 4 And wilt thou rather chuse to meet th’ Almighty as thy foe, And treasure up his wrath in store against the day of woe? 5 Soon shall that fatal day approach that must thy sentence seal, And righteous judgments, now unknown, in awful pomp reveal; 6 While they, who full of holy deeds to glory seek to rise, Continuing patient to the end, shall gain th’ immortal prize.

Thus speaks the high and lofty One; ye tribes of earth, give ear; The words of your Almighty King with sacred rev’rence hear: 2 Amidst the majesty of heav’n my throne is fix’d on high; And through eternity I hear the praises of the sky: 3 Yet, looking down, I visit oft the humble hallow’d cell; And with the penitent who mourn ’tis my delight to dwell; 4 The downcast spirit to revive, the sad in soul to cheer; And from the bed of dust the man of heart contrite to rear.

Our sins before thee we confess; O may they be forgiv’n! As we to others mercy show, we mercy beg from Heav’n.

Behold what witnesses unseen encompass us around; Men, once like us, with suff’ring try’d, but now with glory crown’d. 2 Let us, with zeal like theirs inspir’d, begin the Christian race, And, freed from each encumb’ring weight, their holy footsteps trace. 3 Behold a witness nobler still, who trod affliction’s path, Jesus, at once the finisher and author of our faith. 4 He for the joy before him set, so gen’rous was his love, Endur’d the cross, despis’d the shame, and now he reigns above. 5 If he the scorn of wicked men with patience did sustain, Becomes it those for whom he dy’d to murmur or complain? 6 Have ye like him to blood, to death, the cause of truth maintain’d? And is your heav’nly Father’s voice forgotten or disdain’d? 7 My son, saith he, with patient mind endure the chast’ning rod; Believe, when by afflictions try’d, that thou art lov’d by God. 8 His children thus most dear to him, their heav’nly Father trains, Through all the hard experience led of sorrows and of pains. 9 We know he owns us for his sons, when we correction share; Nor wander as a bastard race, without our Father’s care. 10 A father’s voice with rev’rence we on earth have often heard; The Father of our spirits now demands the same regard. 11 Parents may err; but he is wise, nor lifts the rod in vain; His chast’nings serve to cure the soul by salutary pain. 12 Affliction, when it spreads around, may seem a field of woe; Yet there, at last, the happy fruits of righteousness shall grow. 13 Then let our hearts no more despond, our hands be weak no more; Still let us trust our Father’s love, his wisdom still adore.