Repentance

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Isaiah 55:6 OT

  Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

• 2 Corinthians 6:2 NT

  for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

• Hebrews 4:7 NT

  he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

• Luke 15:7 NT

  I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

• Luke 15:10 NT

  Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

• 2 Corinthians 7:9 NT

  I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

• Isaiah 1:16 OT

  Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

• Isaiah 1:17 OT

  Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

• Daniel 4:27 OT

  Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

• Matthew 3:8 NT

  Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

• Acts 26:20 NT

  but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

• 2 Chronicles 7:14 OT

  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• James 4:9 NT

  Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

• James 4:10 NT

  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

• Ezra 9:6-15 OT

  and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens. Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty…

• Jeremiah 31:19 OT

  Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

• Ezekiel 16:61 OT

  Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

• Ezekiel 16:63 OT

  that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

• Daniel 9:7 OT

  “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have…

• Daniel 9:8 OT

  Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

• Job 42:6 OT

  Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

• Leviticus 26:40 OT

  “ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,

• Job 33:27 OT

  He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

• Matthew 21:32 NT

  For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.