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150 Bible verses for repentance of sins
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
when My people, 0ver whom My Name is called, humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
For the music director: a psalm of David,Let me hear joy and gladness, so the bones You crushed may rejoice.Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.Do not cast me from Your presence— take not Your Ruach ha-Kodesh from me.Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit.Then will I teach transgressors Your ways and sinners will return to You.Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God— God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing for joy of Your righteousness.O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.For You would not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it, nor be pleased by burnt offerings.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Or do you belittle the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience—not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
Peter said to them, “Repent, and let each of you be immersed in the name of Messiah Yeshua for the removal of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
One who covers up his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them finds mercy.
I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one repenting sinner than over the ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.”
“Come now, let us reason together,” says Adonai. “Though your sins be like scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they will become like wool.
Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said: “I confess my transgressions to Adonai,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
From then on, Yeshua began to proclaim, “Turn away from your sins, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all My laws and does what is lawful and right, he will surely live, he will not die.None of his transgressions that he committed will be remembered; because of his righteousness that he practiced, he will live.“Do I delight at all in the death of the wicked?” It is a declaration of Adonai. “Rather, should he not return from his ways, and live?
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some consider slowness. Rather, He is being patient toward you—not wanting anyone to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
“Yet even now” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping and lamenting.”Rend your heart, not your garments, and turn to Adonai, your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abundant in mercy, and relenting about the calamity due.
Now go and learn what this means: ‘Mercy I desire, and not sacrifice.’ For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but the sinful.”
For thus says Adonai Elohim, the Holy One of Israel: “By repentance and rest you are saved, in quietness and trust is your strength— but you were not willing.”
Only acknowledge your iniquity. For you sinned against Adonai your God and scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree. You have not obeyed My voice.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
In the same way, 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!
Moreover I will give you a new heart. I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the stony heart from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Although God overlooked the periods of ignorance, now He commands everyone everywhere to repent.
and that repentance for the removal of sins is to be proclaimed in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
I have blotted out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”
If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities— my Lord, who could stand?For with You there is forgiveness, so You may be revered.
Is Ephraim a precious son to Me? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I still certainly remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him. I will surely have compassion on him.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
My children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Intercessor with the Father—the righteous Messiah Yeshua.The one who loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has made his eyes blind.I am writing to you, children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His name.I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the One who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.I have written to you, children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the One who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, the word of God abides 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 everything in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life—is not from the Father but from the world.The world is passing away along with its desire, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.Children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that the anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have come—by this we know that it is the last hour.They left us, but they didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left us so it became clear that none of them belongs to us.He is the atonement for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.
For sin’s payment is death, but God’s gracious gift is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
Therefore thus says Adonai: “If you return, I will restore you, you will stand before Me. If you extract the precious from the worthless, you will be as My mouth. Let them turn to you, but you must not turn to them.
I’ll get up and go to my father, and I’ll say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your presence.I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired workers.
I, I am the One who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
When they heard this they became quiet, and they glorified God, saying, “Then even to the Gentiles God has granted repentance leading to life!”
“No one, Sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Yeshua said. “Go, and sin no more.”
For You, my Lord, are good, and ready to forgive and full of mercy to all who call upon You.
In Him we have redemption through His blood—the removal of trespasses—in keeping with the richness of His grace
how much more will the blood of Messiah—who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God—cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
and said, “Amen, I tell you, unless you turn and become like children, you shall never enter the kingdom of heaven.
John appeared, immersing in the wilderness, proclaiming an immersion involving repentance for the removal of sins.
For thus says the High and Exalted One who inhabits eternity, whose Name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, yet also with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and revive the heart of the contrite.
But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord. “Look, Master, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have somehow cheated anyone, I repay four times as much!”Then Yeshua said to him, “Today salvation has come to this home, because he also is a son of Abraham.
Rather, I kept declaring—first to those in Damascus, and then Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also the Gentiles—that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with that repentance.
yet if they take it to the heart in the land which they have been carried captive, and they repent and make supplication to You in the land of their captors, saying: ‘We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly,’and they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them into exile, and pray to You toward their land that You gave to their fathers, the city that You have chosen and the House which I have built for Your Name,
The Ruach Adonai Elohim is on me, because Adonai has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,
“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, each one according to his ways.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “Return, and turn away from all your transgressions, so they would not be a stumbling block of iniquity for you.Cast off from you all your transgressions that you have committed. Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?
Who is a God like You pardoning iniquity, overlooking transgression, for the remnant of His heritage? He will not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.He will again have compassion on us. He will subdue our iniquities, and You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion. According to Your mercy remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
Trustworthy is the saying and deserving of complete acceptance: “Messiah Yeshua came into the world to save sinners”—of whom I am foremost.
“But the tax collector, standing some distance away, wouldn’t even lift his eyes toward heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’
Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and ‘you will find rest for your souls.’and said to Yeshua, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
testifying to both Jewish and Greek people repentance to God and trust in our Lord Yeshua.
Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your mercy. According to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, removed from sins, might live for righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”
I have strayed like a lost sheep— seek Your servant. For I did not forget Your mitzvot.
But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities. The chastisement for our shalom was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
That is what some of you were—but you were washed, you were made holy, you were set right in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the Ruach of our God.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Messiah died for us.
Trust in Adonai with all your heart, 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. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,and see if there be any offensive way within me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Say to them: ‘As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Return, return from your evil ways. Why will you die, O house of Israel?’
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved!”
Now may the God of shalom Himself make you completely holy; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept complete, blameless at the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.They are set right as a gift of His grace, through the redemption that is in Messiah Yeshua.
Therefore leaving the basic teaching of the Messiah, let us move on toward maturity—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of trust in God,
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not from yourselves—it is the gift of God.It is not based on deeds, so that no one may boast.
Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Moreover by them Your servant is warned. In keeping them there is great reward.Who can discern his errors? Cleanse me of hidden faults.
Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.But surely God has heard. He has listened to my voice in prayer.Sing the glory of His Name— make His praise glorious.Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His lovingkindness from me.
Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Therefore, having been made righteous by trusting, we have shalom with God through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
whenever our heart condemns us. For God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.Loved ones, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
Adonai, do not withhold Your compassions from me. Let Your mercy and Your truth always protect me.
Then the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your presence. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
The prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.So confess your offenses to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.
Let him give guidance with humility to those who are in opposition—perhaps God may grant them a change of mind, leading to the knowledge of truth.Then they may regain their senses and escape the devil’s snare, in which they had been held captive by him to do his will.
“Therefore if you are presenting your offering upon the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,leave your offering there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
This is love—not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atonement for our sins.
So let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and body washed with pure water.
With respect to your former lifestyle, you are to lay aside the old self corrupted by its deceitful desires,be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and put on the new self—created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
For My hand has made all these things, so all these things came to be,” declares Adonai. “But on this one will I look, one humble and of a contrite spirit, who trembles at My word.”
Afterwards, Yeshua finds him in the Temple. He said to him, “Look, you’ve been healed! Stop sinning, so nothing worse happens to you.”
Now this is the confidence we have before 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 we have asked from Him.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself as having taken hold of this. But this one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,I press on toward the goal for the reward of the upward calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Messiah, so that each one may receive what is due for the things he did while in the body—whether good or bad.
Now those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
No temptation has taken hold of you except what is common to mankind. But God is faithful—He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can handle. But with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape, so you will be able to endure it.
But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of His Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin.
He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Listen to me Asa, all Judah and Benjamin. Adonai is with you as long as you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will spurn you.
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that He may lift you up at the appropriate time.Cast all your worries on Him, for He cares for you.
“As for me, I immerse you in water for repentance. But the One coming after me is mightier than I am; I am not worthy to carry His sandals. He will immerse you in the Ruach ha-Kodesh and fire.
Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving each other just as God in Messiah also forgave you.
I have entreated Your favor with all my heart. Be gracious to me according to Your word.
And he said, “Yeshua, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”Yeshua said to him, “Amen, I tell you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.”
For the music director: a psalm of David. Adonai, You searched me and know me.even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me.If I say: “Surely darkness covers me, night keeps light at a distance from me,”even darkness is not dark for You, and night is as bright as day— darkness and light are alike.For You have created my conscience. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.I praise You, for I am awesomely, wonderfully made! Wonderful are Your works— and my soul knows that very well.My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.Your eyes saw me when I was unformed, and in Your book were written the days that were formed— when not one of them had come to be.How precious are Your thoughts, O God! How great is the sum of them!Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand! When I awake, I am still with You.If only You would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloody men!Whenever I sit down or stand up, You know it. You discern my thinking from afar.
but they who wait for Adonai will renew their strength. They will soar up with wings as eagles. They will run, and not grow weary. They will walk, and not be faint.
All the prophets testify about Him—that everyone who puts his trust in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
“Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it shall be opened.
Yeshua answered him, “Amen, amen I tell you, unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
He made the One who knew no sin to become a sin offering on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Adonai is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him. He will hear their cry and save them.
But now, thus says Adonai— the One who created you, O Jacob, the One who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name, you are Mine.
Therefore we were buried together with Him through immersion into death—in order that just as Messiah was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be pardoned.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,training us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live in a manner that is self-controlled and righteous and godly in the present age.
For this reason I tell you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven—for she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.
For once you were darkness, but now in union with the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light
Now for this very reason, making every effort, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, patience; and to patience, godliness;and to godliness, brotherly love; and to brotherly love, love.For if these qualities are in you and increasing, they keep you from becoming idle and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.But anyone who lacks these qualities is blind—nearsighted because he has forgotten his cleansing from past sins.
Then Peter came to Him and said, “Master, how often shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?”Yeshua said to him, “No, not up to seven times, I tell you, but seventy times seven!
Let the lying lips be mute. For they speak arrogantly against the righteous, with pride and contempt.
“Keep yourselves alert! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.Things will be the same on the day when the Son of Man is made fully known.In that day, the one who is on the roof, and his possessions in the house, must not go down to take them away. In the same way, the one who is in the field must not turn back.Remember Lot’s wife!Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.“I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken along and the other left.There will be two women grinding at the same place. One will be taken and the other left.”“Where, Lord?” they replied. And He said to them, “Where there is a corpse, there also will the vultures be gathered.”Even if he sins against you seven times a day, and seven times returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and even after you saw this, you had no change of heart to believe him.”
This One God exalted at His right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and removal of sins.
Do not be angry much more, Adonai, or remember iniquity forever. Oh, please see, we are all Your people!
Therefore, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also get rid of every weight and entangling sin. Let us run with endurance the race set before us,Indeed, for a short time they disciplined us as seemed best to them; but He does so for our benefit, so that we may share in His holiness.Now all discipline seems painful at the moment—not joyful. But later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble!And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be pulled out of joint but rather be healed.Pursue shalom with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God; and see to it that no bitter root springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.Also see to it that there is no immoral or godless person—like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He found no chance for repentance, though he begged for it with tears.For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and storm,and to the blast of a shofar and a voice whose words made those who heard it beg that not another word be spoken to them.focusing on Yeshua, the initiator and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame; and He has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
In the same way, the Ruach helps in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Ruach Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.And He who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Ruach, because He intercedes for the kedoshim according to the will of God.