Quotes about Repentance
Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
— 2 Samuel 12:10
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
— 2 Samuel 12:13
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
— 2 Samuel 12:14
After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
— 2 Samuel 12:15
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
— 2 Samuel 12:16
Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
— 2 Samuel 12:20
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
— 2 Samuel 12:21
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
— 2 Samuel 12:24
So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
— 2 Samuel 19:3
and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
— 2 Samuel 19:19
For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
— 2 Samuel 19:20
After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
— 2 Samuel 24:10