Bible Verses About Repentance

The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

The LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.”

Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD, since it shall not prosper?

Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you turned back from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.”

But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, didn’t depart out of the camp.

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God, and listen to his voice.

For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you,

and return to the LORD your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

that then the LORD your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.

You shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.

The LORD your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

if you will obey the LORD your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this scroll of the Torah; if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!