Bible Verses About Repentance

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.