Repentance
A turning away from sin and turning back to God. Both the Old Testament prophets and John the Baptist proclaimed repentance, and it remains central to the gospel message.
Verses about Repentance
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Genesis 6:6
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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Exodus 13:17
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was nea…
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Exodus 32:12
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face …
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Exodus 32:14
And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
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Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and sh…
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Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
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Judges 2:18
And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the j…
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Judges 21:6
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
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Judges 21:15
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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1 Samuel 15:29
And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
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1 Samuel 15:35
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul ki…
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2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the …
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1 Kings 8:47
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them…
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1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the ange…
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Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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Psalms 90:13
Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
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Psalms 106:45
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
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Psalms 110:4
The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
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Psalms 135:14
For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
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Jeremiah 4:28
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I tu…