Quotes about Repentance
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
— Zechariah 1:4
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
— Zechariah 1:6
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
— Malachi 3:9
and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
— Matthew 3:2
People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.
— Matthew 3:5
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
— Matthew 3:6
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
— Matthew 3:8
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
— Matthew 3:10
I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
— Matthew 3:11
From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
— Matthew 4:17
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
— Matthew 5:23
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
— Matthew 6:12