Bible Verses About Repentance

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

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.”

Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob— to the Mighty God.

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.