12 Bible Verses about Repentance And Forgiveness

and saying: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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

and saying: The time has fully come, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe the gospel.

And they went out and preached that men should repent;

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

So, I say to you, There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.

Repent, therefore, and turn, in order that your sins may be blotted out, so that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Yet the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now, he commands all men everywhere to repent:

bearing full testimony both to Jews and to Greeks, of the repentance that leads to God, and of the faith that leads to our Lord Jesus Christ.

but announced first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

Therefore, omitting the elementary Christian teaching, let us go on to the perfection of Christian instruction, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,