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150 Bible verses for repentance of sins
But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.
So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest.
Then if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, if they will pray and seek me and stop their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven. I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land.
God, be merciful to me because you are loving. Because you are always ready to be merciful, wipe out all my wrongs.Create in me a pure heart, God, and make my spirit right again.Do not send me away from you or take your Holy Spirit away from me.Give me back the joy of your salvation. Keep me strong by giving me a willing spirit.Then I will teach your ways to those who do wrong, and sinners will turn back to you.God, save me from the guilt of murder, God of my salvation, and I will sing about your goodness.Lord, let me speak so I may praise you.You are not pleased by sacrifices, or I would give them. You don’t want burnt offerings.The sacrifice God wants is a broken spirit. God, you will not reject a heart that is broken and sorry for sin.Do whatever good you wish for Jerusalem. Rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.Then you will be pleased with right sacrifices and whole burnt offerings, and bulls will be offered on your altar.Wash away all my guilt and make me clean again.
The wicked should stop doing wrong, and they should stop their evil thoughts. They should return to the Lord so he may have mercy on them. They should come to our God, because he will freely forgive them.
He has been very kind and patient, waiting for you to change, but you think nothing of his kindness. Perhaps you do not understand that God is kind to you so you will change your hearts and lives.
Peter said to them, “Change your hearts and lives and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
If you hide your sins, you will not succeed. If you confess and reject them, you will receive mercy.
In the same way, I tell you there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who changes his heart and life, than over ninety-nine good people who don’t need to change.
The Lord says, “Come, let us talk about these things. Though your sins are like scarlet, they can be as white as snow. Though your sins are deep red, they can be white like wool.
Then I confessed my sins to you and didn’t hide my guilt. I said, “I will confess my sins to the Lord,” and you forgave my guilt.Selah
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Change your hearts and lives, because the kingdom of heaven is near.”
“But suppose the wicked stop doing all the sins they have done and obey all my rules and do what is fair and right. Then they will surely live; they will not die.Their sins will be forgotten. Because they have done what is right, they will live.I do not really want the wicked to die, says the Lord God. I want them to stop their bad ways and live.
The Lord is not slow in doing what he promised—the way some people understand slowness. But God is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to be lost, but he wants all people to change their hearts and lives.
The Lord says, “Even now, come back to me with all your heart. Fast, cry, and be sad.”Tearing your clothes is not enough to show you are sad; let your heart be broken. Come back to the Lord your God, because he is kind and shows mercy. He doesn’t become angry quickly, and he has great love. He can change his mind about doing harm.
Go and learn what this means: ‘I want kindness more than I want animal sacrifices.’ I did not come to invite good people but to invite sinners.”
This is what the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, says: “If you come back to me and trust me, you will be saved. If you will be calm and trust me, you will be strong.” But you don’t want to do that.
All you have to do is admit your sin— that you turned against the Lord your God and worshiped gods under every green tree and didn’t obey me,’ ” says the Lord.
In the same way, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God when one sinner changes his heart and life.”
Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You sinners, clean sin out of your lives. You who are trying to follow God and the world at the same time, make your thinking pure.
Also, I will teach you to respect me completely, and I will put a new way of thinking inside you. I will take out the stubborn hearts of stone from your bodies, and I will give you obedient hearts of flesh.
In the past, people did not understand God, and he ignored this. But now, God tells all people in the world to change their hearts and lives.
and that a change of hearts and lives and forgiveness of sins would be preached in his name to all nations, starting at Jerusalem.
I have swept away your sins like a big cloud; I have removed your sins like a cloud that disappears into the air. Come back to me because I saved you.”
Lord, if you punished people for all their sins, no one would be left, Lord.But you forgive us, so you are respected.
Lord, after I wandered away from you, I changed my heart and life. After I understood, I beat my breast with sorrow. I was ashamed and disgraced, because I suffered for the foolish things I did when I was young.’
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, and he saves those whose spirits have been crushed.
My dear children, I write this letter to you so you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a helper in the presence of the Father—Jesus Christ, the One who does what is right.Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light and will not cause anyone to stumble in his faith.But whoever hates a brother or sister is in darkness, lives in darkness, and does not know where to go, because the darkness has made that person blind.I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Christ.I write to you, fathers, because you know the One who existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you have defeated the Evil One.I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know the One who existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong; the teaching of God lives in you, and you have defeated the Evil One.Do not love the world or the things in the world. If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you.These are the ways of the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. None of these come from the Father, but all of them come from the world.The world and everything that people want in it are passing away, but the person who does what God wants lives forever.My dear children, these are the last days. You have heard that the enemy of Christ is coming, and now many enemies of Christ are already here. This is how we know that these are the last days.These enemies of Christ were in our fellowship, but they left us. They never really belonged to us; if they had been a part of us, they would have stayed with us. But they left, and this shows that none of them really belonged to us.He died in our place to take away our sins, and not only our sins but the sins of all people.
The payment for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So this is what the Lord says: “If you change your heart and return to me, I will take you back. Then you may serve me. And if you speak things that have worth, not useless words, then you may speak for me. Let the people of Judah turn to you, but you must not change and be like them.
I will leave and return to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against God and against you.I am no longer worthy to be called your son, but let me be like one of your servants.” ’
When the believers heard this, they stopped arguing. They praised God and said, “So God is allowing even other nations to turn to him and live.”
She answered, “No one, sir.” Then Jesus said, “I also don’t judge you guilty. You may go now, but don’t sin anymore.”] _____________________________
The sacrifice God wants is a broken spirit. God, you will not reject a heart that is broken and sorry for sin.
In Christ we are set free by the blood of his death, and so we have forgiveness of sins. How rich is God’s grace,
How much more is done by the blood of Christ. He offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God.
Then he said, “I tell you the truth, you must change and become like little children. Otherwise, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
John was baptizing people in the desert and preaching a baptism of changed hearts and lives for the forgiveness of sins.
And this is the reason: God lives forever and is holy. He is high and lifted up. He says, “I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are sad and humble. I give new life to those who are humble and to those whose hearts are broken.
But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “I will give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have cheated anyone, I will pay back four times more.”Jesus said to him, “Salvation has come to this house today, because this man also belongs to the family of Abraham.
I began telling people that they should change their hearts and lives and turn to God and do things to show they really had changed. I told this first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem, and in every part of Judea, and also to the other people.
Your people will be sorry for their sins when they are held as prisoners in another country. They will be sorry and pray to you in the land where they are held as prisoners, saying, ‘We have sinned. We have done wrong and acted wickedly.’They will truly turn back to you in the land of their enemies. They will pray to you, facing this land you gave their ancestors, this city you have chosen, and the Temple I have built for you.
The Lord God has put his Spirit in me, because the Lord has appointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort those whose hearts are broken, to tell the captives they are free, and to tell the prisoners they are released.
“So I will judge you, people of Israel; I will judge each of you by what you do, says the Lord God. Change your hearts and stop all your sinning so sin will not bring your ruin.Get rid of all the sins you have done, and get for yourselves a new heart and a new way of thinking. Why do you want to die, people of Israel?
There is no God like you. You forgive those who are guilty of sin; you don’t look at the sins of your people who are left alive. You will not stay angry forever, because you enjoy being kind.You will have mercy on us again; you will conquer our sins. You will throw away all our sins into the deepest part of the sea.
Do not remember the sins and wrong things I did when I was young. But remember to love me always because you are good, Lord.
What I say is true, and you should fully accept it: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
“The tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even look up to heaven. But he beat on his chest because he was so sad. He said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest.Accept my teachings and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit, and you will find rest for your lives.They asked him, “Are you the One who is to come, or should we wait for someone else?”The burden that I ask you to accept is easy; the load I give you to carry is light.”
I warned both Jews and Greeks to change their lives and turn to God and believe in our Lord Jesus.
I know about my wrongs, and I can’t forget my sin.You are the only one I have sinned against; I have done what you say is wrong. You are right when you speak and fair when you judge.
Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so we would stop living for sin and start living for what is right. And you are healed because of his wounds.
I have wandered like a lost sheep. Look for your servant, because I have not forgotten your commands.
But he was wounded for the wrong we did; he was crushed for the evil we did. The punishment, which made us well, was given to him, and we are healed because of his wounds.
In the past, some of you were like that, but you were washed clean. You were made holy, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
But God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
Trust the Lord with all your heart, and don’t depend on your own understanding.Remember the Lord in all you do, and he will give you success.
God, examine me and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.See if there is any bad thing in me. Lead me on the road to everlasting life.
Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.
Say to them: ‘The Lord God says: As surely as I live, I do not want any who are wicked to die. I want them to stop doing evil and live. Stop! Stop your wicked ways! You don’t want to die, do you, people of Israel?’
Now may God himself, the God of peace, make you pure, belonging only to him. May your whole self—spirit, soul, and body—be kept safe and without fault when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.
Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard,and all need to be made right with God by his grace, which is a free gift. They need to be made free from sin through Jesus Christ.
So let us go on to grown-up teaching. Let us not go back over the beginning lessons we learned about Christ. We should not again start teaching about faith in God and about turning away from those acts that lead to death.
I mean that you have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God.It was not the result of your own efforts, so you cannot brag about it.
If anyone belongs to Christ, there is a new creation. The old things have gone; everything is made new!
No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will be destroyed as they were!
People cannot see their own mistakes. Forgive me for my secret sins.Keep me from the sins of pride; don’t let them rule me. Then I can be pure and innocent of the greatest of sins.
Dear friends, we have these promises from God, so we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes body or soul unclean. We should try to become holy in the way we live, because we respect God.
If I had known of any sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened to me.But God has listened; he has heard my prayer.Sing about his glory! Make his praise glorious!Praise God, who did not ignore my prayer or hold back his love from me.
Jesus answered, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.
Since we have been made right with God by our faith, we have peace with God. This happened through our Lord Jesus Christ,
My dear friends, if our hearts do not make us feel guilty, we can come without fear into God’s presence.
Troubles have surrounded me; there are too many to count. My sins have caught me so that I cannot see a way to escape. I have more sins than hairs on my head, and I have lost my courage.
The son said, ‘Father, I have sinned against God and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven.Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen.
The Lord’s servant must gently teach those who disagree. Then maybe God will let them change their minds so they can accept the truth.And they may wake up and escape from the trap of the devil, who catches them to do what he wants.
The Father gives me the people who are mine. Every one of them will come to me, and I will always accept them.
“So when you offer your gift to God at the altar, and you remember that your brother or sister has something against you,leave your gift there at the altar. Go and make peace with that person, and then come and offer your gift.
This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God’s love for us. He sent his Son to die in our place to take away our sins.
let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
You were taught to leave your old self—to stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self becomes worse, because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do.But you were taught to be made new in your hearts,to become a new person. That new person is made to be like God—made to be truly good and holy.
My hand made all things. All things are here because I made them,” says the Lord. “These are the people I am pleased with: those who are not proud or stubborn and who fear my word.
Later, Jesus found the man at the Temple and said to him, “See, you are well now. Stop sinning so that something worse does not happen to you.”
And this is the boldness we have in God’s presence: that if we ask God for anything that agrees with what he wants, he hears us.If we know he hears us every time we ask him, we know we have what we ask from him.
So give yourselves completely to God. Stand against the devil, and the devil will run from you.
Try to live in peace with all people, and try to live free from sin. Anyone whose life is not holy will never see the Lord.
Brothers and sisters, I know that I have not yet reached that goal, but there is one thing I always do. Forgetting the past and straining toward what is ahead,I keep trying to reach the goal and get the prize for which God called me through Christ to the life above.
because we must all stand before Christ to be judged. Each of us will receive what we should get—good or bad—for the things we did in the earthly body.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their own sinful selves. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.
The only temptation that has come to you is that which everyone has. But you can trust God, who will not permit you to be tempted more than you can stand. But when you are tempted, he will also give you a way to escape so that you will be able to stand it.
But if we live in the light, as God is in the light, we can share fellowship with each other. Then the blood of Jesus, God’s Son, cleanses us from every sin.
Azariah went to meet Asa and said, “Listen to me, Asa and all you people of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you obey him, you will find him, but if you leave him, he will leave you.
Be humble under God’s powerful hand so he will lift you up when the right time comes.Give all your worries to him, because he cares about you.
“I baptize you with water to show that your hearts and lives have changed. But there is one coming after me who is greater than I am, whose sandals I am not good enough to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Be kind and loving to each other, and forgive each other just as God forgave you in Christ.
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Lord, you have examined me and know all about me.even there you would guide me. With your right hand you would hold me.I could say, “The darkness will hide me. Let the light around me turn into night.”But even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as light as the day; darkness and light are the same to you.You made my whole being; you formed me in my mother’s body.I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother’s body. When I was put together there,you saw my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.God, your thoughts are precious to me. They are so many!If I could count them, they would be more than all the grains of sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.God, I wish you would kill the wicked! Get away from me, you murderers!You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts before I think them.
But the people who trust the Lord will become strong again. They will rise up as an eagle in the sky; they will run and not need rest; they will walk and not become tired.
All the prophets say it is true that all who believe in Jesus will be forgiven of their sins through Jesus’ name.”
“Ask, and God will give to you. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will open for you.Yes, everyone who asks will receive. Everyone who searches will find. And everyone who knocks will have the door opened.
Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot be in God’s kingdom.”
Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could become right with God.
The Lord is close to everyone who prays to him, to all who truly pray to him.He gives those who respect him what they want. He listens when they cry, and he saves them.
Now this is what the Lord says. He created you, people of Jacob; he formed you, people of Israel. He says, “Don’t be afraid, because I have saved you. I have called you by name, and you are mine.
When we were baptized, we were buried with Christ and shared his death. So, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the wonderful power of the Father, we also can live a new life.
Change your heart! Turn away from this evil thing you have done, and pray to the Lord. Maybe he will forgive you for thinking this.
That is the way we should live, because God’s grace that can save everyone has come.It teaches us not to live against God nor to do the evil things the world wants to do. Instead, that grace teaches us to live in the present age in a wise and right way and in a way that shows we serve God.
I tell you that her many sins are forgiven, so she showed great love. But the person who is forgiven only a little will love only a little.”
In the past you were full of darkness, but now you are full of light in the Lord. So live like children who belong to the light.
Because you have these blessings, do your best to add these things to your lives: to your faith, add goodness; and to your goodness, add knowledge;and to your knowledge, add self-control; and to your self-control, add patience; and to your patience, add service for God;and to your service for God, add kindness for your brothers and sisters in Christ; and to this kindness, add love.If all these things are in you and are growing, they will help you to be useful and productive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.But anyone who does not have these things cannot see clearly. He is blind and has forgotten that he was made clean from his past sins.
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, when my fellow believer sins against me, how many times must I forgive him? Should I forgive him as many as seven times?”Jesus answered, “I tell you, you must forgive him more than seven times. You must forgive him even if he wrongs you seventy times seven.
How great is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you have given to those who trust you. You do this for all to see.
So be careful! “If another follower sins, warn him, and if he is sorry and stops sinning, forgive him.This is how it will be when the Son of Man comes again.“On that day, a person who is on the roof and whose belongings are in the house should not go inside to get them. A person who is in the field should not go back home.Remember Lot’s wife.Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them.I tell you, on that night two people will be sleeping in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken, and the other will be left. [Two people will be in the field. One will be taken, and the other will be left.]”The followers asked Jesus, “Where will this be, Lord?” Jesus answered, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”If he sins against you seven times in one day and says that he is sorry each time, forgive him.”
Yes, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers,nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John came to show you the right way to live. You did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. Even after seeing this, you still refused to change your ways and believe him.
Jesus is the One whom God raised to be on his right side, as Leader and Savior. Through him, all people could change their hearts and lives and have their sins forgiven.
But Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter; your hands made us all.
We are surrounded by a great cloud of people whose lives tell us what faith means. So let us run the race that is before us and never give up. We should remove from our lives anything that would get in the way and the sin that so easily holds us back.Our fathers on earth disciplined us for a short time in the way they thought was best. But God disciplines us to help us, so we can become holy as he is.We do not enjoy being disciplined. It is painful at the time, but later, after we have learned from it, we have peace, because we start living in the right way.You have become weak, so make yourselves strong again.Keep on the right path, so the weak will not stumble but rather be strengthened.Try to live in peace with all people, and try to live free from sin. Anyone whose life is not holy will never see the Lord.Be careful that no one fails to receive God’s grace and begins to cause trouble among you. A person like that can ruin many of you.Be careful that no one takes part in sexual sin or is like Esau and never thinks about God. As the oldest son, Esau would have received everything from his father, but he sold all that for a single meal.You remember that after Esau did this, he wanted to get his father’s blessing, but his father refused. Esau could find no way to change what he had done, even though he wanted the blessing so much that he cried.You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire. You have not come to darkness, sadness, and storms.You have not come to the noise of a trumpet or to the sound of a voice like the one the people of Israel heard and begged not to hear another word.Let us look only to Jesus, the One who began our faith and who makes it perfect. He suffered death on the cross. But he accepted the shame as if it were nothing because of the joy that God put before him. And now he is sitting at the right side of God’s throne.
Also, the Spirit helps us with our weakness. We do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself speaks to God for us, even begs God for us with deep feelings that words cannot explain.God can see what is in people’s hearts. And he knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit speaks to God for his people in the way God wants.