1705 verses about Repentance

And all the multitude sat together trembling in the broad place before the temple because of the present foul weather.

So Esdras arose up and said to them, you⌃ have transgressed the law and married strange wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel.

and do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women.

But forasmuch as the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:

therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,

and with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.

So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end by the new moon of the first month.

And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found;

And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer rams to make reconcilement for their error.

Neh 8:1. And the whole multitude were gathered together with one accord into the broad place before the porch of the temple toward the east:

And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshipped the Lord.

This day is holy to the Lord; (now they all wept when they heard the law:)

for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, longsuffering and abundant in mercy, and repent of bringing evils upon men.

You, O Lord, according to your great goodness have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you: and of your infinite mercies have appointed repentance to sinners, that they may be saved. You therefore, O Lord, that are the God of the just, have not appointed repentance to the just, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance to me that am a sinner:

for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O Lord: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities.

I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I can’t lift up my head by reason of my sins, neither have I any respite: for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: I did not your will, neither kept I your commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied detestable things.

Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace.

I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities:

but, I humbly beseech you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with my iniquities. Be not angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, O Lord, are the God of those who repent;

and in me you will show all your goodness: for you will save me, that am unworthy, according to your great mercy.

see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.

Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and show forth your compassion in this hour.

When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings.

If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer.

The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations.

Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done.

Go your way, and show my people their sinful deeds, and their children their wickedness which they have done against me; that they may tell their children’s children:

Did I not bring them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? but they have provoked me to wrath, and have despised my counsels.

I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have I done among you; yet have you⌃ forgotten me, says the Lord.

I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.

What shall I do to you, O Jacob? you, Judah, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and to them will I give my name, that they may keep my statutes.

Seeing you⌃ have forsaken me, I also will forsake you; when you⌃ ask me to be merciful to you, I will have no mercy upon you.

You⌃ have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.

I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.

When you⌃ offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions of the flesh, have I rejected.

They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their former estate to remembrance.

Thus says the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but set my counsels at nothing.

I brought you up with gladness, and with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for you⌃ have sinned before the Lord God, and done that which is evil before me.

For it was not in my mind to be curious of the ways above, but of such things as pass by us daily; because Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and the people whom you have loved is given over to ungodly nations, and the law of our forefathers is made of none effect, and the written covenants are nowhere regarded,

Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, yet even we all are full of impiety:

For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these statutes, and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death, has showed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life; and that, not a few only, but well near all that have been created.

and compassionate, in that he has compassion upon those that turn to his law;

therefore will I begin to pray before you for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land;

O look not upon the sins of your people; but on those who have served you in truth,

For we and our fathers have passed our lives in ways that bring death: but you because of us sinners are called merciful.

and as many as have scorned my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open to them, understood not, but despised it;

But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,

Now therefore set your house in order, and reprove your people, comfort the lowly among them, and instruct such of them as be wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible,

Then was the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but you⌃ yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.

Let no man therefore come to me now, nor seek after me these forty days.

Behold, famine and plague, tribulation and anguish! they are sent as scourges for amendment.

But for all these things they shall not turn them from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.

Let not the sinner say that he has not sinned: for he shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which says, I have not sinned before God and his glory.

And when your sins are brought forth before men, you⌃ shall be ashamed, and your own iniquities shall stand as your accusers in that day.

What will you⌃ do? or how will you⌃ hide your sins before God and his angels?

Behold, God is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them forever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all tribulation.

and you⌃ who keep my commandments and precepts, says the Lord God, don’t let your sins weigh you down, and don’t let your iniquities lift up themselves.

Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?

And Apollonius fell half dead upon the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and propitiate the heavenly army.

For he said that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved, he would celebrate to all men the blessedness of the holy place.

Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.” Isaiah 40:3

Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ Hosea 6:6 for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’ Isaiah 6:9-10

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’” Isaiah 29:13

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.