Bible Verses About Repentance: Exhortation to

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”