Bible Verses About Repentance

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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

For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

In that day, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth: