Repentance

(A complete reversal of one' s attitude and values, i. e. a turning toward God)

Attributed to God

• Genesis 6:6

  And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

• Genesis 6:7

  And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

• Exodus 32:14

  And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

• Deuteronomy 32:36

  For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

• Judges 2:18

  And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

• 1 Samuel 15:11

  It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

• 1 Samuel 15:29

  And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

• 1 Samuel 15:35

  And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:15

  And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• Psalms 106:45

  And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

• Psalms 110:4

  The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

• Psalms 135:14

  For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

• Jeremiah 15:6

  Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

• Jeremiah 18:8

  If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

• Jeremiah 18:10

  If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

• Jeremiah 26:3

  If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

• Jeremiah 42:10

  If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

• Joel 2:13

  And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

• Amos 7:3

  The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

• Amos 7:6

  The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

• Jonah 3:9

  Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

• Jonah 3:10

  And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

The burden of the preaching

Exhortation to

• Proverbs 1:23–33

  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: …

• Jeremiah 7:3

  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

• Jeremiah 7:5

  For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

• Jeremiah 26:3

  If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

• Hosea 14:1–3

  O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

• Amos 5:4–6

  For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought. Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

• Matthew 3:2

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

Condition of God' s favor

• Leviticus 26:40–42

  If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Unavailing

Unclassified scriptures relating to

• Leviticus 26:40–42

  If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

• Deuteronomy 4:29–31

  But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

• Deuteronomy 10:16

  Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

• Deuteronomy 30:1–3

  And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

• Deuteronomy 30:8–10

  And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

• Deuteronomy 32:29

  O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

• 1 Kings 8:33–50

  When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: …

• 2 Chronicles 6:36–39

  If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly; If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name: …

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• 2 Chronicles 30:6–9

  So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. …

• Nehemiah 1:9

  But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

• Job 11:13–15

  If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

• Job 22:23

  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

• Job 33:26–28

  He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

• Job 34:31

  Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

• Job 34:32

  That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

• Job 36:10

  He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

• Psalms 22:27

  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

• Psalms 34:14

  Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

• Psalms 34:18

  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

• Psalms 51:17

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

• Psalms 95:7

  For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

• Psalms 95:8

  Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

• Psalms 147:3

  He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

• Proverbs 1:22

  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 1:23

  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

• Proverbs 9:6

  Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

• Proverbs 28:13

  He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

• Isaiah 10:21

  The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

• Isaiah 22:12

  And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

• Isaiah 31:6

  Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

• Isaiah 44:22

  I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

• Isaiah 46:8

  Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.

• Isaiah 55:6

  Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

• Isaiah 55:7

  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

• Isaiah 57:15

  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

• Isaiah 59:20

  And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

• Isaiah 61:1

  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

• Isaiah 61:2

  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

• Jeremiah 3:4

  Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

• Jeremiah 3:12–14

  Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

• Jeremiah 3:19

  But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

• Jeremiah 4:1–4

  If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. …

• Jeremiah 4:14

  O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

• Jeremiah 6:8

  Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

• Jeremiah 6:16

  Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

• Jeremiah 7:5

  For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

• Jeremiah 7:7

  Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

• Jeremiah 13:15

  Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

• Jeremiah 13:16

  Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

• Jeremiah 18:8

  If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

• Jeremiah 18:11

  Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

• Jeremiah 24:7

  And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

• Jeremiah 25:5

  They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

• Jeremiah 26:3

  If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

• Jeremiah 26:13

  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

• Jeremiah 31:9

  They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Jeremiah 36:3

  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

• Jeremiah 36:7

  It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

• Jeremiah 50:4

  In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

• Jeremiah 50:5

  They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

• Ezekiel 7:16

  But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

• Ezekiel 11:18–20

  And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

• Ezekiel 12:3

  Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.

• Ezekiel 14:6

  Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

• Ezekiel 16:61–63

  Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

• Ezekiel 18:21–23

  But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

• Ezekiel 18:27

  Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

• Ezekiel 18:28

  Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

• Ezekiel 18:30–32

  Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

• Ezekiel 20:43

  And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

• Ezekiel 33:10–12

  Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

• Ezekiel 33:14–16

  Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

• Ezekiel 33:19

  But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

• Ezekiel 36:31

  Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

• Ezekiel 37:23

  Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

• Daniel 4:27

  Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

• Hosea 2:7

  And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

• Hosea 3:5

  Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

• Hosea 5:15

  I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

• Hosea 10:12

  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

• Hosea 12:6

  Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

• Hosea 14:1

  O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

• Hosea 14:2

  Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

• Joel 1:14

  Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

• Joel 2:12

  Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

• Joel 2:13

  And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

• Joel 2:15–18

  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? …

• Amos 4:12

  Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

• Amos 5:6

  Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

• Amos 5:15

  Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

• Jonah 3:8

  But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

• Jonah 3:9

  Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

• Haggai 1:7

  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

• Zechariah 1:3

  Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

• Zechariah 12:10

  And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

• Malachi 3:7

  Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

• Matthew 3:2

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

• Matthew 3:7

  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

• Matthew 3:8

  Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

• Matthew 4:17

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

• Matthew 5:4

  Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

• Matthew 9:13

  But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

• Mark 1:4

  John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

• Mark 1:15

  And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

• Mark 2:17

  When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

• Mark 6:12

  And they went out, and preached that men should repent.

• Luke 3:3

  And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

• Luke 5:32

  I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

• Luke 6:21

  Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

• Luke 10:13

  Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

• Luke 13:1–5

  There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilæans were sinners above all the Galilæans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. …

• Luke 15:1–10

  Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And he spake this parable unto them, saying, …

• Luke 18:10–14

  Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. …

• Luke 24:47

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

• Acts 2:38

  Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

• Acts 2:40

  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

• Acts 3:19

  Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

• Acts 5:31

  Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

• Acts 8:22

  Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

• Acts 17:30

  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

• Acts 20:21

  Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Acts 26:20

  But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judæa, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

• Romans 2:4

  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

• Romans 11:23

  And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

• Romans 14:11

  For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

• Ephesians 5:14

  Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

• 2 Timothy 2:25

  In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

• Hebrews 6:1

  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

• James 4:8–10

  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

• 1 John 1:9

  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

• Revelation 2:5

  Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

• Revelation 3:2

  Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

• Revelation 3:3

  Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

• Revelation 3:19

  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Instances of

Exemplified

Numbers 21:7, 2 Samuel 24:10, 2 Samuel 24:17, 1 Chronicles 21:17, 2 Chronicles 29:6, Ezra 9:4, Ezra 9:6, Ezra 9:10, Ezra 9:13, Ezra 9:14, Nehemiah 1:6, Nehemiah 1:7, Nehemiah 9:16–37, Job 7:20, Job 9:20, Job 13:23, Job 40:4, Job 42:5, Psalms 32:5, Psalms 38:3, Psalms 38:4, Psalms 38:18, Psalms 40:12, Psalms 41:4, Psalms 51:1–4, Psalms 51:7–17, Psalms 69:5, Psalms 69:10, Psalms 73:21, Psalms 73:22, Psalms 106:6, Psalms 119:59, Psalms 119:176, Psalms 130:1–3, Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah 38:15, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 59:12–15, Isaiah 64:5–7, Jeremiah 3:21, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 3:25, Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 14:7, Jeremiah 14:20, Jeremiah 31:18, Jeremiah 31:19, Lamentations 3:40, Lamentations 3:41, Daniel 9:5–7, Daniel 10:12, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 14:3, Hosea 14:8, Jonah 3:10, Micah 7:9, Luke 15:17–20, 1 Corinthians 15:9, 2 Corinthians 7:9–11, 1 Peter 2:25