Nave’s Topical Bible
Repentance
219 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
(A complete reversal of one's attitude and values, i. e. a Turning toward God)
- Attributed to God
Genesis 6:6-7; Exodus 32:14; Deuteronomy 32:36; Judges 2:18; 1 Samuel 15:11,29,35; 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Chronicles 21:15; Psalms 106:45; Psalms 110:4; Psalms 135:14; Jeremiah 15:6; Jeremiah 18:8,10; Jeremiah 26:3; Jeremiah 42:10; Joel 2:13; Amos 7:3,6; Jonah 3:9-10
- The burden of the preaching
- Of John the Baptist
- Of Jesus
- Exhortation to
Proverbs 1:23-33; Jeremiah 7:3,5; Jeremiah 26:3; Hosea 14:1-3; Amos 5:4-6; Matthew 3:2
- Condition of God's favor
- Unavailing
- To Israel
- To Esau
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Leviticus 26:40-42; Deuteronomy 4:29-31; Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:1-3,8-10; Deuteronomy 32:29; 1 Kings 8:33-50; 2 Chronicles 6:36-39; 2 Chronicles 7:14; 2 Chronicles 30:6-9; Nehemiah 1:9; Job 11:13-15; Job 22:23; Job 33:26-28; Job 34:31-32; Job 36:10; Psalms 22:27; Psalms 34:14,18; Psalms 51:17; Psalms 95:7-8; Psalms 147:3; Proverbs 1:22-23; Proverbs 9:6; Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 10:21; Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 31:6; Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 46:8; Isaiah 55:6-7; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 59:20; Isaiah 61:1-2; Jeremiah 3:4,12-14,19; Jeremiah 4:1-4,14; Jeremiah 6:8,16; Jeremiah 7:5,7; Jeremiah 13:15-16; Jeremiah 18:8,11; Jeremiah 24:7; Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 26:3,13; Jeremiah 31:9; Jeremiah 36:3,7; Jeremiah 50:4-5; Ezekiel 7:16; Ezekiel 11:18-20; Ezekiel 12:3; Ezekiel 14:6; Ezekiel 16:61-63; Ezekiel 18:21-23,27-28,30-32; Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 33:10-12,14-16,19; Ezekiel 36:31; Ezekiel 37:23; Daniel 4:27; Hosea 2:7; Hosea 3:5; Hosea 5:15; Hosea 10:12; Hosea 12:6; Hosea 14:1-2; Joel 1:14; Joel 2:12-13,15-18; Amos 4:12; Amos 5:6,15; Jonah 3:8-9; Haggai 1:7; Zechariah 1:3; Zechariah 12:10; Malachi 3:7; Matthew 3:2,7-8; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 5:4; Matthew 9:13; Mark 1:4,15; Mark 2:17; Mark 6:12; Luke 3:3; Luke 5:32; Luke 6:21; Luke 10:13; Luke 13:1-5; Luke 15:1-10; Luke 18:10-14; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38,40; Acts 3:19; Acts 5:31; Acts 8:22; Acts 17:30; Acts 20:21; Acts 26:20; Romans 2:4; Romans 11:23; Romans 14:11; Ephesians 5:14; 2 Timothy 2:25; Hebrews 6:1; James 4:8-10; 1 John 1:9; Revelation 2:5; Revelation 3:2-3,19
See CONVICTION
See PENITENCE
See REMORSE
- INSTANCES OF
- Joseph's brothers, of their maltreatment of Joseph
- Pharaoh, of his hardness of heart
- Balaam, of his spiritual blindness
- Israelites
- Of worshiping the golden calf
- Of their complaining because of lack of bread and water, when the plague of fiery serpents came upon them
- When rebuked by an angel for not expelling the Canaanites
- Of their idolatry, when afflicted by the Philistines
- In asking for a king
- In the time of Asa, by the preaching of Azariah
- By the preaching of Oded
- Under the influence of Hezekiah
- Achan, because of his theft
- Saul, at the rebuke of Samuel for not destroying the Amalekites
- David, at the rebuke of Nathan, the prophet, for his sins of Adultery and murder
- Rehoboam, when his kingdom was invaded, and Jerusalem was Besieged
- Hezekiah, at the time of his sickness
- When reproved by the prophet Micah
- Ahab, when reproved by Elijah for Ahab's idolatry
- Jehoahaz
- Josiah, when he heard the law of God which had been Discovered in the temple by Hilkiah
- Manasseh, when he was carried away captive to Babylon by the King of Assyria
- The Jews of the exile
- At the dedication of the second temple
- Because of their idolatrous marriages
- Because of their oppressive usury
- After hearing the law expounded by Ezra
- By the preaching of Haggai
- Jonah, after his punishment
- The Ninevites, by the preaching of Jonah
- The Jews, by the preaching of John the Baptist
- The woman who anointed Jesus with oil
- The disobedient son
- The Prodigal Son
- Peter, because of his denial of Jesus
- Judas
- The Ephesians, by the preaching of Paul
- EXEMPLIFIED
Numbers 21:7; 2 Samuel 24:10,17; 1 Chronicles 21:17; 2 Chronicles 29:6; Ezra 9:4,6,10,13-14; Nehemiah 1:6-7; Nehemiah 9:16-37; Job 7:20; Job 9:20; Job 13:23; Job 40:4; Job 42:5; Psalms 32:5; Psalms 38:3-4,18; Psalms 40:12; Psalms 41:4; Psalms 51:1-4,7-17; Psalms 69:5,10; Psalms 73:21-22; Psalms 106:6; Psalms 119:59,176; Psalms 130:1-3; Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 38:15,17; Isaiah 59:12-15; Isaiah 64:5-7; Jeremiah 3:21-22,25; Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 14:7,20; Jeremiah 31:18-19; Lamentations 3:40-41; Daniel 9:5-7; Daniel 10:12; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 14:3,8; Jonah 3:10; Micah 7:9; Luke 15:17-20; 1 Corinthians 15:9; 2 Corinthians 7:9-11; 1 Peter 2:25
Bible verses about “Repentance”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 6:6And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
- Genesis 6:7And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
- Exodus 32:14And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
- Deuteronomy 32:36For 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.
- Judges 2:18And 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 judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
- 1 Samuel 15:11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.
- 1 Samuel 15:29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
- 1 Samuel 15:35And 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 king over Israel.
- 2 Samuel 24:16And 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 people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:15And 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 angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Psalms 106:45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
- Psalms 110:4The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
- Psalms 135:14For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
- Jeremiah 15:6Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
- Jeremiah 18:8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
- Jeremiah 18:10If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
- Jeremiah 26:3If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
- Jeremiah 42:10If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
- Joel 2:13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
- Amos 7:3The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.
- Amos 7:6The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.
- Jonah 3:9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
- Jonah 3:10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
- Matthew 4:17From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
- Mark 1:15And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
- Proverbs 1:23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
- Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
- Proverbs 1:25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
- Proverbs 1:26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
- Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
- Proverbs 1:29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
- Proverbs 1:30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
- Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Proverbs 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
- Proverbs 1:33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
- Jeremiah 7:3Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
- Jeremiah 7:5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
- Hosea 14:1O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- Hosea 14:2Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.