Bible Verses About Repentance

`I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What--to us? thou shalt see!'

and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.

John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation--to remission of sins,

and saying--`Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'

And Jesus, having heard, saith to them, `They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.'

And having gone forth they were preaching that men might reform,

and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation--to remission of sins,

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

`Happy those hungering now--because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now--because ye shall laugh.

`Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed;

And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

`Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying--This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

`What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

and having found, he doth lay it on his shoulders rejoicing,

and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep--the lost one.

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

`Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'