Bible Verses About Repentance

saying, "I sinned in betraying an innocent man to death." "What is that to us?" they answered. "That's your problem."

Hurling the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, he left; then he went off and hanged himself.

So it was that Yochanan the Immerser appeared in the desert, proclaiming an immersion involving turning to God from sin in order to be forgiven.

"The time has come, God's Kingdom is near! Turn to God from your sins and believe the Good News!"

But, hearing the question, Yeshua answered them, "The ones who need a doctor aren't the healthy but the sick. I didn't come to call the `righteous' but sinners!"

So they set out and preached that people should turn from sin to God,

He went all through the Yarden region proclaiming an immersion involving turning to God from sin in order to be forgiven.

I have not come to call the `righteous,' but rather to call sinners to turn to God from their sins."

"How blessed are you who are hungry! for you will be filled. "How blessed are you who are crying now! for you will laugh.

“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.

Just then, some people came to tell Yeshua about the men from the Galil whom Pilate had slaughtered even while they were slaughtering animals for sacrifice.

His answer to them was, “Do you think that just because they died so horribly, these folks from the Galil were worse sinners than all the others from the Galil?

No, I tell you. Rather, unless you turn to God from your sins, you will all die as they did!

“Or what about those eighteen people who died when the tower at Shiloach fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Yerushalayim?

No, I tell you. Rather, unless you turn from your sins, you will all die similarly.”

The tax-collectors and sinners kept gathering around to hear Yeshua,

and the P’rushim and Torah-teachers kept grumbling. “This fellow,” they said, “welcomes sinners — he even eats with them!”

So he told them this parable:

“If one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, doesn’t he leave the other ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

When he does find it, he joyfully hoists it onto his shoulders;

and when he gets home, he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Come, celebrate with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

“Another example: what woman, if she has ten drachmas and loses one of these valuable coins, won’t light a lamp, sweep the house and search all over until she finds it?

And when she does find it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Come, celebrate with me, because I have found the drachma I lost.’

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy among God’s angels when one sinner repents.”