Bible Verses About Repentance: Exhortation to

(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)

Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.

But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.

I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.

Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,

Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,

Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.

Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.

For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.

But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.

Thus sayeth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Amend your waies and your woorkes, and I will let you dwell in this place.

For if you amende and redresse your waies and your woorkes: if you execute iudgement betweene a man and his neighbour,

If so be they will hearken, and turne euery man from his euill way, that I may repent me of the plague, which I haue determined to bring vpon them, because of the wickednesse of their workes.

Samaria shalbe desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sworde: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, and their women with childe shalbe ript.

O Israel, returne vnto the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie.

Take vnto you words, and turne to the Lord, and say vnto him, Take away all iniquitie, and receiue vs graciously: so wil we render the calues of our lippes.

For thus saith the Lord vnto the house of Israel, Seeke ye me, and ye shall liue.

But seeke not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and go not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall goe into captiuitie, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

Seeke the Lord, and yee shall liue, least he breake out like fire in the house of Ioseph and deuoure it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

And said, Repent: for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.