REPENTANCE

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 6:6

  Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

• Genesis 6:7

  Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground — man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky — for I am sorry that I have made them.”

• Genesis 42:21

  They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

• Genesis 50:17

  ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

• Genesis 50:18

  His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

• Exodus 9:27

  Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

• Exodus 10:16

  Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

• Exodus 10:17

  Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”

• Exodus 32:14

  Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

• Exodus 33:3

  to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”

• Exodus 33:4

  When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

• Leviticus 26:40

  “‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

• Leviticus 26:41

  I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

• Leviticus 26:42

  then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

• Numbers 14:39

  Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

• Numbers 14:40

  They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.”

• Numbers 14:41

  Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

• Numbers 14:42

  Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

• Numbers 14:43

  For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”

• Numbers 14:44

  But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.

• Numbers 14:45

  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

• Numbers 21:4

  They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.

• Numbers 21:5

  The people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.”

• Numbers 21:6

  Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

• Numbers 21:7

  The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

• Numbers 22:24

  Then Yahweh’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

• Numbers 22:25

  The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again.

• Numbers 22:26

  Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

• Numbers 22:27

  The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

• Numbers 22:28

  Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

• Numbers 22:29

  Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”

• Numbers 22:30

  The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.”

• Numbers 22:31

  Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

• Numbers 22:32

  Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

• Numbers 22:33

  The donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”

• Numbers 22:34

  Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”

• Numbers 22:35

  Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

• Deuteronomy 4:29

  But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 4:30

  When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.

• Deuteronomy 4:31

  For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

• Deuteronomy 10:16

  Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

• Deuteronomy 30:1

  It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,

• Deuteronomy 30:2

  and return to Yahweh your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

• Deuteronomy 30:3

  that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

• Deuteronomy 30:8

  You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.

• Deuteronomy 30:9

  Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

• Deuteronomy 30:10

  if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 32:29

  Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

• Deuteronomy 32:36

  For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

• Judges 2:1

  Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.

• Judges 2:2

  You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?

• Judges 2:3

  Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”

• Judges 2:4

  When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

• Judges 2:5

  They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.

• Judges 2:18

  When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

• Judges 10:6

  The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.

• Judges 10:7

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

• Judges 10:8

  They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

• Judges 10:9

  The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.

• Judges 10:10

  The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”

• Judges 10:11

  Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

• Judges 10:12

  The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.

• Judges 10:13

  Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

• Judges 10:14

  Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

• Judges 10:15

  The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”

• Judges 10:16

  They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

• 1 Samuel 7:3

  Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

• 1 Samuel 7:4

  Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.

• 1 Samuel 7:5

  Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”

• 1 Samuel 7:6

  They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

• 1 Samuel 12:16

  “Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.

• 1 Samuel 12:17

  Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in Yahweh’s sight, in asking for a king.”

• 1 Samuel 12:18

  So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.

• 1 Samuel 12:19

  All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”

• 1 Samuel 12:20

  Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

• 1 Samuel 15:11

  “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

• 1 Samuel 15:29

  Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

• 1 Samuel 15:35

  Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

• 1 Kings 8:33

  “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;

• 1 Kings 8:34

  then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

• 1 Kings 8:35

  “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

• 1 Kings 8:36

  then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

• 1 Kings 8:37

  “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

• 1 Kings 8:38

  whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

• 1 Kings 8:39

  then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

• 1 Kings 8:40

  that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

• 1 Kings 8:41

  “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake

• 1 Kings 8:42

  (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;

• 1 Kings 8:43

  hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

• 1 Kings 8:44

  “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

• 1 Kings 8:45

  then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

• 1 Kings 8:46

  If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

• 1 Kings 8:47

  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;’

• 1 Kings 8:48

  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;

• 1 Kings 8:49

  then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

• 1 Kings 8:50

  and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

• 1 Chronicles 21:15

  God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 2 Chronicles 6:36

  “If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

• 2 Chronicles 6:37

  yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’

• 2 Chronicles 6:38

  if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

• 2 Chronicles 6:39

  then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 30:6

  So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

• 2 Chronicles 30:7

  Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

• 2 Chronicles 30:8

  Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

• 2 Chronicles 30:9

  For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

• Nehemiah 1:9

  but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

• Job 11:13

  “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

• Job 11:14

  If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

• Job 11:15

  Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

• Job 22:23

  If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

• Job 33:27

  He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

• Job 33:28

  He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’

• Job 34:31

  “For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

• Job 34:32

  Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

• Job 36:10

  He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

• Psalms 22:27

  All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

• Psalms 34:14

  Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.

• Psalms 34:18

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

• Psalms 51:17

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

• Psalms 95:7

  for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

• Psalms 95:8

  Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

• Psalms 106:45

  He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

• Psalms 110:4

  Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

• Psalms 135:14

  For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

• Psalms 147:3

  He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

• Proverbs 1:22

  “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 1:23

  Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

• Proverbs 1:24

  Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

• Proverbs 1:25

  but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

• Proverbs 1:26

  I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

• Proverbs 1:27

  when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

• Proverbs 1:28

  Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

• Proverbs 1:29

  because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

• Proverbs 1:30

  They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

• Proverbs 1:31

  Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

• Proverbs 1:32

  For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

• Proverbs 1:33

  But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

• Proverbs 9:6

  Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

• Proverbs 28:13

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

• Isaiah 10:21

  A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

• Isaiah 22:12

  In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

• Isaiah 31:6

  Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

• Isaiah 44:22

  I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

• Isaiah 46:8

  “Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.

• Isaiah 55:6

  Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

• Isaiah 55:7

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

• Isaiah 57:15

  For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “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.

• Isaiah 59:20

  “A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

• Isaiah 61:1

  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;

• Isaiah 61:2

  to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

• Jeremiah 3:4

  Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

• Jeremiah 3:12

  Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

• Jeremiah 3:13

  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.”

• Jeremiah 3:14

  “Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

• Jeremiah 3:19

  “But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

• Jeremiah 4:1

  “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;

• Jeremiah 4:2

  and you shall swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”

• Jeremiah 4:3

  For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

• Jeremiah 4:4

  Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

• Jeremiah 4:14

  Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

• Jeremiah 6:8

  Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.”

• Jeremiah 6:16

  Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

• Jeremiah 7:3

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

• Jeremiah 7:5

  For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

• Jeremiah 7:7

  then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

• Jeremiah 13:15

  Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

• Jeremiah 13:16

  Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

• Jeremiah 15:6

  You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward: therefore I have stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.

• Jeremiah 18:8

  if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

• Jeremiah 18:10

  if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

• Jeremiah 18:11

  “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’

• Jeremiah 24:7

  I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

• Jeremiah 25:5

  saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.

• Jeremiah 26:3

  It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’

• Jeremiah 26:13

  Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; and Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

• Jeremiah 31:9

  They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Jeremiah 36:3

  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

• Jeremiah 36:7

  It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”

• Jeremiah 42:10

  ‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.

• Jeremiah 50:4

  “In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

• Jeremiah 50:5

  They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.’

• Ezekiel 7:16

  But those of those who escape will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

• Ezekiel 11:18

  “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

• Ezekiel 11:19

  I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

• Ezekiel 11:20

  that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

• Ezekiel 12:3

  “Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

• Ezekiel 14:6

  “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

• Ezekiel 16:61

  Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

• Ezekiel 16:62

  I will establish my covenant with you; and you will know that I am Yahweh;

• Ezekiel 16:63

  that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

• Ezekiel 18:21

  “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.

• Ezekiel 18:22

  None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

• Ezekiel 18:23

  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?

• Ezekiel 18:27

  Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

• Ezekiel 18:28

  Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

• Ezekiel 18:30

  “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 shall not be your ruin.

• Ezekiel 18:31

  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?

• Ezekiel 18:32

  For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

• Ezekiel 20:43

  There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

• Ezekiel 33:10

  You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

• Ezekiel 33:11

  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?

• Ezekiel 33:12

  You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

• Ezekiel 33:14

  Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

• Ezekiel 33:15

  if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

• Ezekiel 33:16

  None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

• Ezekiel 33:19

  When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

• Ezekiel 36:31

  Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

• Ezekiel 37:23

  neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

• Daniel 4:27

  Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

• Hosea 2:7

  She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

• Hosea 3:5

  Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

• Hosea 5:15

  I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

• Hosea 10:12

  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

• Hosea 12:6

  Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

• Hosea 14:1

  Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

• Hosea 14:2

  Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

• Hosea 14:3

  Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

• Joel 1:14

  Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

• Joel 2:12

  “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

• Joel 2:13

  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.

• Joel 2:15

  Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

• Joel 2:16

  Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

• Joel 2:17

  Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

• Joel 2:18

  Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

• Amos 4:12

  “Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

• Amos 5:4

  For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

• Amos 5:5

  but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

• Amos 5:6

  Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

• Amos 5:15

  Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

• Amos 7:3

  Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 7:6

  Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Jonah 3:8

  but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

• Jonah 3:9

  Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

• Jonah 3:10

  God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

• Haggai 1:7

  This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

• Zechariah 1:3

  Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

• Zechariah 12:10

  I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

• Malachi 3:7

  From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

• Matthew 3:2

  “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

• Matthew 3:7

  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

• Matthew 3:8

  Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

• Matthew 4:17

  From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

• Matthew 5:4

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

• Matthew 9:13

  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.”

• Mark 1:4

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

• Mark 1:15

  and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

• Mark 2:17

  When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

• Mark 6:12

  They went out and preached that people should repent.

• Luke 3:3

  He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

• Luke 5:32

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

• Luke 6:21

  Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

• Luke 10:13

  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

• Luke 13:1

  Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

• Luke 13:2

  Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

• Luke 13:3

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

• Luke 13:4

  Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

• Luke 13:5

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

• Luke 15:1

  Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

• Luke 15:2

  The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

• Luke 15:3

  He told them this parable.

• Luke 15:4

  “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

• Luke 15:5

  When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

• Luke 15:6

  When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

• Luke 15:7

  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.

• Luke 15:8

  Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

• Luke 15:9

  When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

• Luke 15:10

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

• Luke 18:10

  “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

• Luke 18:11

  The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

• Luke 18:12

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• Luke 18:13

  But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

• Luke 18:14

  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

• Luke 24:47

  and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

• Acts 2:38

  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.

• Acts 2:40

  With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

• Acts 3:19

  “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,

• Acts 5:31

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

• Acts 8:22

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

• Acts 17:30

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

• Acts 20:21

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

• Acts 26:20

  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.

• Romans 2:4

  Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

• Romans 11:23

  They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

• Romans 14:11

  For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

• Ephesians 5:14

  Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

• 2 Timothy 2:25

  in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

• Hebrews 6:1

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

• Hebrews 12:16

  lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

• Hebrews 12:17

  For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

• James 4:8

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

• James 4:9

  Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

• James 4:10

  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

• 1 John 1:9

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

• Revelation 2:5

  Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

• Revelation 3:2

  Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

• Revelation 3:3

  Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

• Revelation 3:19

  As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.