150 Bible verses for repentance of sins

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

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

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, 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 will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, 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 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.None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh, “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’” says Yahweh.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. 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 will be sorry for my sin.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the 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, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

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

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

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’

“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore 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 them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, 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,

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin.Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat 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 gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

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

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,not of works, that no one would boast.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness 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 atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward 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. My heart has failed me.

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,leave your gift there before the altar, and go 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 as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure 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.

He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh 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.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

“I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all 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. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

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

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

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

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

for you were 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. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

For I am persuaded 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 God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.