Bible Verses About Repentance

Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.

testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!

And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.