'Repent' in the Bible

“God is not a man, that He should lie,Nor a son of man, that He should repent;Has He said, and will He not do it?Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

if they take thought in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly’;

if they take thought in the land where they are taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have committed iniquity and have acted wickedly’;

Therefore I retract,And I repent in dust and ashes.”

If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;He has bent His bow and made it ready.

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?You have smitten them,But they did not weaken;You have consumed them,But they refused to take correction.They have made their faces harder than rock;They have refused to repent.

“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,“Do men fall and not get up again?Does one turn away and not repent?

“I will winnow them with a winnowing forkAt the gates of the land;I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people;They did not repent of their ways.

Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the calamity which I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.’

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Repent and turn away from your idols and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct,” declares the Lord God. “Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the Lord God. “Therefore, repent and live.”

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

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

Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

They went out and preached that men should repent.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’

And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”

Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.

Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.

Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.

Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds.

So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.

Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.

and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.