“Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.” Acts 19:4
“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”
2 Peter 3:9
“I tell you, Nay; but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew the, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?” Luke 13:3-5
“I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine persons, which need no repentance.” Luke 15:7
“And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” Luke 24:47
“Behold, your house is left unto you desolate; and verily I say unto you Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Luke 13:35
“Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” Luke 15:10
“Then Peter said unto them, repent, and be baptized every on of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2:38
“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 3:19
“Repent of this thy wickedness, and pray god, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.” Acts 8:22
“When they heard these tings, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentace unto life.” Acts 11:18
“And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Because He hath appoint a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that he that raised Him from the dead.” Acts 17:30
“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matt. 3:1-2
“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? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.” Matt. 3:7-8
“But when Jesus heard that, He said unto them, they that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.” Matt. 9:12
“Then began He to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not.” Matt. 11:20
“When Jesus heard it, He saith unto them, they that are whole have no need o the physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” Mark 2:17
“Or despises thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? Rom. 2:4
“And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail may which have sinned already, and have unto repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.” 2 Cor. 12:21
“Therefore we were comforted in your comfort; yea and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.”2 Cor. 7:13-14
“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.” Ez. 18:30
“If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with the, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near.”1 Kings 8:46
“In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.”2 Tim. 2:25
“Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.” Jer. 8:5
“For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.” Heb. 12:17
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9
“Repent, or else I will come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.” Rev. 2:16
“And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.” Rev. 2:21-22
“And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that the should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” Rev. 9:20-21
“Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up.” Hos. 6:1
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, an to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9
“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up.” James 4:10
“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 3:19
“Blessed are they who mourn; for they shall be conmforted.” Matt. 5:4
“Repent ye; for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matt 3:2
“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.” Zec. 1:3
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of; but the worrow of the world worketh death.” 2 Cor 7:10
“I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid, I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.” Ps. 34:5
“Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.” Ps. 34:14
“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.” Jer. 4:1-2
“The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.” Ps. 24: 15-18
“For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.” Ps. 40:12
“For innumberable evils have compassed me about; mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are ore than the hairs of mine head; therefore my heart faileth me.” Ps. 40: 12
“If thou prepare thein 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 steadfast, and shalt not fear; Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away. And thine age shall be clearer than noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shat dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.” Job 11:13-18
“How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.” Job 13:23
“He looketh upon men, and if any say, IO 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 33:27-28
“He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.” Job. 36:10
“I said, Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.” Ps. 41:4
“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to they lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgression. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest.” Ps. 51:1-4
“O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.” Ps. 69:5
“For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. Today if ye will hear His voice, Harden not your heart, as in the day of temptation in the wilderness.”
Ps. 95:7-8
“We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.” Ps. 106:6
“I have gone astray like a lost sheep, seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.” Ps. 119:176
“Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. Ps. 130:1-3
“Turn you at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make know my words unto you.” Prov. 1:23
“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Prov. 28:13
“Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God’ and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” Ps. 51:8-13
“Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, thich I pray before thee now, day and night , for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee; both I and my father’s house have sinned. We have delt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, not the statues, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.” Neh. 1:6-7
“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 chose to set my name there.” Neh. 1:9
“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.” Jer. 6:16
“For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.” Jer. 7: 5-7
“O Lord, though or iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.” Jer. 14:7
“We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.” Jer. 14: 20
“If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I have thought to do unto them.” Jer. 18:8
“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 you doings good.” Jer. 18:11
“And I will give them a 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.” Jer. 24:7
“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; And go not after other gods to serve them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.” Jer. 25:5
“If also 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.” Jer. 26:3
“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.” Jer. 26:13
“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.” Jer. 31:9
“Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did not bear the reproach of my youth.” Jer. 31:19
“Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord.” Lam. 3: 40
“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 of his iniquity.” Eze. 7:16
“But, if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statues, 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 that he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked shall die? Saith the Lord God; and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” Eze.18: 21-23
“And 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. Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.” Eze. 18: 27-28
“Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” Is. 6:5
“I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, they transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins; return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.” Is. 44:22
“Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: 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.” Is. 55:6-7
“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 that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” Is. 57:15
“For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgression are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away form our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.” Is. 59:12-13
“And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and has consumed us, because of our iniquities.” But now, O Lord, thou are our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity forever; behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.” Is. 64:7-9
“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 forever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord they God, and hast scattered they 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.” Is. 3:12-14
“But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the host of nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.” Jer. 3:19
“A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications for the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.” Jer. 3: 21-22
“We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.” Jer. 3:25
“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 2:38
“Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” 2 Cor. 7:8-9
“But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all they 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; He will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of they fathers which he sware unto them.” Deut. 4:29-31
“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.” Deut. 30: 1-2
“Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to sine upon they sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.” Dan. 9:17
“If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity o f their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto my; 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 Issac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember their land.” Lev. 26:40-4