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.
2 Chronicles 7:14
humility | forgiveness | healing
Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.
2 Chronicles 30:9b
grace | repentance | forgiveness
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5
sin | desires | materialism
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
Acts 3:19
sin | forgiveness | repentance
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9
salvation | patience | repentance
“For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!”
Ezekiel 18:32
death | eternal life | righteousness
Tear your heart and not your garments,
and turn to Yahweh, your God;
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
and relents from sending calamity.
Joel 2:13
heart | grace | love
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
Matthew 3:8
conversion | repentance | life
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.”
Acts 2:38
forgiveness | Spirit | baptism
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
Luke 5:32
sin | repentance | Jesus
I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Luke 15:7
repentance | joy | heaven
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:21
salvation | Word of God | evil
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
and, as a cloud, your sins.
Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22
sin | salvation | redeemer
From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 4:17
Jesus | evangelism | heaven
And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
Mark 1:15
kingdom | repentance | faith
Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,
to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Isaiah 55:7
righteousness | forgiveness | life
‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Zechariah 1:3b
repentance | reliability | obedience
But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:21
sin | law | obedience
“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart,
and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
Joel 2:12
fasting | sadness | heart
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation 3:19
love | life | punishment
Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin.
Ezekiel 18:30b
sin | punishment
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:13
sin | righteousness | sacrifice
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent.
Acts 17:30
repentance | forgiveness
Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.
Luke 15:10
joy | angels | repentance
Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
1 Corinthians 15:34
righteousness | sin | understanding
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
Galatians 6:1
sin | temptation | desires
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.
Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
and accept that which is good;
so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.”
Hosea 14:2
forgiveness
Turn at my reproof.
Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you.
I will make known my words to you.
Proverbs 1:23
repentance | wisdom | Spirit
Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
Zechariah 1:4
evil | listening
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator.
Colossians 3:9-10
lying | life | transformation
I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
Luke 13:3
repentance | punishment
Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:40
repentance | life
Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”
Acts 19:4
baptism | faith | Jesus
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
2 Corinthians 7:10
worrying | sadness | repentance
God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.
Acts 3:26
resurrection | Jesus | blessing
“Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh, “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?”
Ezekiel 18:23
life | death
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
Jeremiah 7:5-7
widows | orphans | blessing
Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Hebrews 6:1-2
faith | baptism | resurrection
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Luke 18:13
repentance | humility | grace
I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 3:11
baptism | Holy Spirit
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
Jonah 3:10
repentance | forgiveness | grace