'Repent' in the Bible

When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, 'We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.'

When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, 'We have sinned and gone astray, we have done evil!'

But if you repent and obey my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.'

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

Serve the Lord in fear! Repent in terror!

Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)

If a person does not repent, God sharpens his sword and prepares to shoot his bow.

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed."

"A protector comes to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds," says the Lord.

You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!

One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

Because of this, the Lord said, "You must repent of such words and thoughts! If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless, I will again allow you to be my spokesman. They must become as you have been. You must not become like them.

"Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity.

For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

They will return to Egypt! Assyria will rule over them because they refuse to repent!

Return to the Lord and repent! Say to him: "Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.

"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near."

From that time Jesus began to preach this message: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near."

Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.

He said, "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!"

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven."

So they went out and preached that all should repent.

No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well!

No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!"

I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

Then the rich man said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."

Peter said to them, "Repent, and each one 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 turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.

Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.

Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place -- that is, if you do not repent.

Therefore, repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people with the sword of my mouth.

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.

All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood -- idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.

Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.

They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their sufferings and because of their sores, but nevertheless they still refused to repent of their deeds.