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Key Bible Verses about Repentance
Important passages about repentance, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
Trace this theme through Scripture: Repentance
Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the LORD’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. To obey is better than sacrifice
Samuel rebukes Saul for keeping what God had told him to destroy and excusing it as a gift for sacrifice. The LORD wants obedience more than religious offerings.
if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. If my people humble themselves
Part of God's answer to Solomon after the temple is dedicated. In the setting of drought, locusts and plague (7:13), God promises to hear Israel's prayers and heal their land…
I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. I acknowledged my sin to you
David describes the weight of hiding his sin and the relief of confessing it to God and being forgiven.
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. Create in me a clean heart
David's prayer of confession, headed with Nathan's visit after his sin with Bathsheba. He asks God not only to forgive him but to renew him from within.
23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. 24See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. Search me, God, and know my heart
The closing prayer of Psalm 139: David invites God, who already knows him completely, to test him and lead him in the everlasting way.
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Though your sins are as scarlet
God invites Judah to "reason together": their sins can be made white as snow. The offer comes in a chapter calling them to stop doing evil and seek justice for…
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. A new heart and a new spirit
God promises the exiles that he will gather them, cleanse them, and replace their heart of stone with a heart of flesh by putting his Spirit within them.
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.” The kingdom of God is near
Mark's summary of Jesus' first preaching in Galilee: the time is fulfilled; repent and believe the good news.
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Repent and be baptised
Peter's answer at Pentecost when the crowd asks what they should do: repent and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness, and receive the gift of the…
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we confess our sins
John writes that God is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse those who confess their sins.
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