30 Bible Verses about Repentance, Importance Of

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind.

Brothers, if any one among you errs from the truth, and one converts him, let him know that he who converts a sinner from an error of [his] way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.

John baptized in the wilderness, preaching the baptism of a change of mind for the forgiveness of sins.

And he went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of a change of mind for the forgiveness of sins;

and that a change of mind and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil, in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a change of mind to a knowledge of the truth, and that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil, who are made captives by him to his will.

Bear fruits, therefore, worthy of a change of mind. And say not within yourselves, We have Abraham for a father; for I tell you that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. And already also the axe lies at the root of the trees; every tree therefore which bears not good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire.

Remember therefore whence you have fallen, and change your minds, and do the first works, otherwise I will come to you and remove your candlestick from its place, unless you change your minds.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Change your minds; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And after John was delivered up Jesus came into Galilee preaching the good news of God, saying, The time is completed, and the kingdom of God is at hand; change your minds and believe in the good news.

Change your minds, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

And Peter said to them, Change your minds, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Change your minds, therefore, and turn yourselves, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

him has God exalted, a Prince and Saviour at his right hand, to give a change of mind to Israel and the forgiveness of sins.

And hearing these things they were silent, and glorified God, saying, Then to the gentiles also has God indeed given the change of mind to life.

The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to a change of mind?

And I gave her time to change her mind, and she will not change her mind from her fornication.

Overlooking therefore the times of ignorance, God now commands all men everywhere to change their minds, because he has appointed a day in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness, by the man whom he has appointed, giving assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called to-day, that no one of you may be hardened by the deception of sin; for we have been made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of the confidence firm to the end. It was said, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation;

again he defines a certain day, To-day, saying in David, after so long a time, as it was said before, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Then he began to rebuke those cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they changed not their minds.

For John came to you in a way of righteousness, and you believed him not; but the publicans and harlots believed him; and when you saw this, you did not afterwards repent, that you might believe him.

And the rest of men, who were not killed with these plagues, did not change their minds [to turn] from the works of their hands, not to worship demons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which cannot see nor hear nor walk, and did not change their minds [to turn] from their murders, nor from their magic arts, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God who had power over these plagues, and changed not their minds to give him glory. And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened, and they gnawed their tongues from painful labor, and blasphemed the God of heaven on account of their painful labors and their ulcers, and they changed not their minds to turn from their works.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says; Hearing you shall hear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive; for the hearts of this people have become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should heal them.

And he said to them, To you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those without all things are in parables; that seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest at any time they should turn, and be forgiven.

And his disciples asked him, What does this parable mean? And he said, It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to others in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

and disagreeing among themselves they were dismissed by Paul, saying one word; Well did the Holy Spirit speak by Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you shall hear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive; for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.

that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright. For you know that afterwards, wishing also to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind, though he sought it with tears.