60 Bible Verses about Repentance, Importance Of
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Brethren, if any among you be led astray from the truth, and any should turn him back; Let him know, that he having turned the sinful from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
And Jehovah sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending; and ye heard not, and ye inclined not your ear to hear. Saying, Turn back now each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell upon the land which Jehovah gave to you and to your fathers to from forever and even to forever. And ye shall not go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them, and ye shall not irritate me in the work of your hands; and I will not do evil to you.
And thou son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou heardest the word from my mouth, and thou didst warn them from me. In my saying to the, unjust, O unjust one, dying, thou shalt die; and thou spakest not to warn the unjust from his way, that unjust one shall die in his iniquity, and I will seek his blood from thine hand. And thou, if thou warnedst the unjust from his way to turn back from it, and be turned not back from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; and thou didst deliver thy soul.
John was immersing in the desert, and proclaiming the immersion of repentance for the remission of sins.
And he came into all the country round about Jordan, proclaiming the immersion of repentance for remission of sins;
And repentance and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, having begun from Jerusalem.
And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil, In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth; That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will.
For this I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah: Turn back and withdraw from all your transgressions; and iniquity shall not be to you for a stumbling block. Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye transgressed against me, and make to you a new heart and a new spirit: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel? For I shall not delight in the death of him dying, says the Lord Jehovah: and turn ye back and live.
And if they will not hear, they shall pass away by the spear, and they shall expire without knowledge.
The moment I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to tear down, and to destroy: And that nation which I spake against it turned back from its evil, and I lamented for the evil which I proposed to do to it.
Perhaps they will hear and turn back a man from his evil way, and I lamented for the evil which I purposed to do to them from the face of the evil of their doings.
He shall not turn back to the land of Egypt, and Assur shall be his king, for they refused to turn back.
And God will see their works that they turned back from their evil way, and God will lament for the evil which he spake to do to them: and he did it not
Do ye therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to, say in yourselves, We have a father A braham : for I say to you, That God is able to raise children to Abraham of these stones. And also the axe is already laid at the root of the trees: therefore every tree not making good fruit is cut down, and cast into fire.
Therefore remember whence thou hest fallen, and repent, and do the first works; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and I will move the chandelier out of its place, except thou repent.
From then Jesus began to proclaim, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.
And after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God, And saying, That the time has been completed, and the kingdom of God has drawn near: repent ye, and believe in the good news.
If I shall shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and if I shall command upon the locust to consume the land, and if I shall send death upon my people; And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.
The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.
And it being when all these words shall come upon thee, the blessing, and the curse which I gave before thee, and thou shalt turn back to thy heart in all these nations where Jehovah thy God thrust thee away there, And thou turnedst back to Jehovah thy God, and heardst to his voice according to all which I command thee this day, thou and thy sons, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: And Jehovah thy God turned back thy captivity, and pitied thee, and he turned back and gathered thee from all the peoples, where Jehovah thy God scattered thee there.read more.
If thy expelling shall be to the end of the heavens, from there thy God will gather thee, and from there he will take thee: And Jehovah thy God brought thee to the land which thy fathers inherited, and thou inheritedst it: and he did good to thee and multiplied thee above thy fathers. And Jehovah thy God circumcised thy heart and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life. And Jehovah thy God gave all these curses upon thine enemies and upon those hating thee, who chased thee. And thou shalt turn back and hear to the voice of Jehovah, and do all his commands which I command thee this day. And Jehovah thy God caused thee to abound in every work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land for good: for Jehovah will turn back to be glad over thee for good as he was glad over thy fathers: If thou shalt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God to watch his commands and his laws written in the book of this law, if thou shalt turn back to Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Remember now the word that thou didst command Moses thy servant, saying, Ye will transgress; I will scatter you among the nations: And did ye turn back to me and watch my commands and do them; if there shall be a thrusting forth of you into the extremity of the heavens, from thence will I gather them and bring them to the place which I chose for my name to dwell there.
If thou wilt turn back even to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt remove iniquity far off from thy tent Place thou gold upon the dust, and the precious ore of the torrents of Ophir. And the Almighty was thy gold and silver of labors to thee.
And he will uncover their ear for instruction, and he will say that they shall turn back from iniquity. If they will hear and will serve him, they shall finish their days in good, and their years in delights.
I wiped away as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: turn back to me for I redeemed thee.
And Peter said to them, Repent, and be each of you immersed in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call.
Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord;
This, God exalted, a Chief and Saviour, with his right hand to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
And having heard these, they were silent, and honoured God, saying, For also God gave the nations repentance to life.
Delighting, shall I delight in the death of the unjust one? says the Lord Jehovah: not in his turning back from his way and living?
The Lord puts not off the solemn promise, as some deem slowness; but is lonsuffering to us, not willing any to perish, but all should have room for repentance.
I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes.
Or the abundance of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering dos thou despise; not knowing that the goodness of God brings thee to repentance?
And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Hearing, I heard Ephraim being thrust away: Thou didst correct me, and I shall be corrected as a calf not being taught: turn me back and I shall be turned back, for thou Jehovah my God. For after my being turned back I was comforted; and after my knowing I struck upon the thigh: I was ashamed and also disgraced for I bore the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim a precious son to me? if a child of delights? for whenever my speaking against him, remembering, I shall remember him yet; for this the bowels were put in motion to me compassionating, I will compassionate him, says Jehovah.
And it was in that day the remainder of Israel shall no more add, and the escaping of the house of Jacob, to lean upon him smiting them; and were leaning upon Jehovah the holy of Israel in truth. The remainder shall turn back the remainder of Jacob to the mighty God.
And Jehovah smote Egypt, and he smote and healed: and they turned back even to Jehovah, and he was entreated by them, and he healed them.
Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths. And she pursued those loving her, and she shall not overtake them; and she sought them and she shall not find: and she said, I will go and turn back to my former husband, for it was well to me then more than now.
Go ye and we will turn back to Jehovah: for he rent and he will heal us; he will strike, and he will bind us up.
Therefore truly, God having overlooked the times of ignorance, now announces to all men everywhere to repent: Wherefore he set a day, in which he is about to judge the habitable globe in justice by the man whom he appointed; having offered faith to all, having raised him from the dead.
But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin. For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end; In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation.
Again he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after such time; as it is said, To day if ye would hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
For he is our God, and we the people of his feeding and the sheep of his hand. This day if ye will, hear to his voice. Ye shall not harden your heart as the strife, as the day of trial in the desert:
And I shall send to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Turn ye back now each from his evil way, and make good your doings, and ye shall not go after other gods to serve them, and turn ye back to the land which I gave to you and to your fathers: and ye inclined not your ear and ye heard not to me.
O Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon faithfulness? thou didst smite them, and they were not pained; thou didst consume them, they refused to take instruction: they made their faces firm above the rock; they refused to turn back.
Then began he to blame the cities in which were his greatest powers, because they repented not.
For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.
And the rest of men who were not killed by these blows, neither repented of the works of their hands, that they should not worship evil spirits, and images of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood: which neither can see, neither hear, neither walk: And they repented not of their slaughters, nor of their charms, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.
And men were parched up with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, having power over these blows: and they repented not to give him glory. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the wild beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they pressed their tongues for pain, And they blasphemed the God of heaven for their pains and for their sores, and they repented not of their work.
And the prophecy of Esaias is filled up in them, saying, In hearing shall ye hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.
And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables: That seeing they might see, and not know; and hearing they might hear, and not understand; lest they turn back, and their sins be remitted to them.
And his disciples asked him, saying, What may this parable be? And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
And being at variance with one another, they were let go, Paul having said one word, That well spake the Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to our fathers, Saying, Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and ye should not perceive: For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them.
Make the heart of this people fat and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, lest they shall see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and their heart shall understand and turn back and be healed to them.
And Moses will speak these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people will mourn greatly. And they will rise early in the morning, and will go up to the head of the mountain, saying, Behold us, and we will go up to the place which Jehovah said: for we sinned. And Moses will say, Wherefore this you are passing by the mouth of Jehovah? And it shall not prosper.read more.
Ye shall not go up, for Jehovah is not in the midst of you; and shall ye not be struck before your enemies? For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye fell by the sword: for ye turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah will not be with you. And they will act proudly to go up to the head of the mountain: mid the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses departed not out of the midst of the camp. And Amalek came down, and the Canaanite, he dwelling in the mountain, and he will smite them, and will beat them, even to Hormah.
And Saul will say to Samuel, I sinned: for I passed by the mouth of Jehovah, and thy words: for I feared the people and I will hear to their voice. And now, take away now, my sin, and turn back with me, and I will worship to Jehovah. And Samuel will say to Saul, I will not turn back with thee, for thou didst reject the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah will reject thee from being king over Israel
And David will say to Nathan, I sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan will say to David, Jehovah also passed over thy sin; thou shalt not die. Only that despising, thou didst cause the enemies of Jehovah to despise by this thing, also the son born to thee, dying, shall die.
Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture. For ye know also afterwards, wishing to inherit the praise, he was disapproved of: for he found no place for a change of mind, although having sought it with tears.
