Repentance
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Repentance’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 373 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Genesis 6:6 OT
Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
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Genesis 6:7 OT
Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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Exodus 32:14 OT
So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.
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For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
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Judges 2:18 OT
When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and…
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“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
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Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
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Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.
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When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of…
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God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing…
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He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
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Psalms 110:4 OT
Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
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For Yahweh will judge his people and have compassion on his servants.
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You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.
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if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
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if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
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It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’
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‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.
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Joel 2:13 OT
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
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Amos 7:3 OT
Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
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Amos 7:6 OT
Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Jonah 3:9 OT
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
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Jonah 3:10 OT
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
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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…