Bible Verses About Penitent

I’m going to get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you;

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.” ’

So he got up and started back to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.

His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son — ’

but his father said to his slaves, ‘Quick, bring out a robe, the best one, and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet;

and bring the calf that has been fattened up, and kill it. Let’s eat and have a celebration!

For this son of mine was dead, but now he’s alive again! He was lost, but now he has been found!’ And they began celebrating.

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came close to the house, he heard music and dancing.

So he called one of the servants and asked, ‘What’s going on?’

The servant told him, ‘Your brother has come back, and your father has slaughtered the calf that was fattened up, because he has gotten him back safe and sound.’

But the older son became angry and refused to go inside. “So his father came out and pleaded with him.

‘Look,’ the son answered, ‘I have worked for you all these years, and I have never disobeyed your orders. But you have never even given me a young goat, so that I could celebrate with my friends.

Yet this son of yours comes, who squandered your property with prostitutes, and for him you slaughter the fattened calf!’

‘Son, you are always with me,’ said the father, ‘and everything I have is yours.

We had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead but has come back to life — he was lost but has been found.’”

“Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Parush and the other a tax-collector.

The Parush stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!

I fast twice a week, I pay tithes on my entire income, . . . ’

But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God! Have mercy on me, sinner that I am!’

I tell you, this man went down to his home right with God rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost.”

Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will certainly not turn away.

I am the gate; if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.

“Therefore, brothers, let it be known to you that through this man is proclaimed forgiveness of sins!

That is, God clears everyone who puts his trust in this man, even in regard to all the things concerning which you could not be cleared by the Torah of Moshe.