50 Bible Verses on Repentance from the Old Testament - Turning from Sin, Returning to God, Seeking God's Mercy
Here’s a comprehensive list of 50 Bible verses from the Old Testament on repentance, using the NKJV translation. I’ve focused on passages that highlight turning from sin, returning to God, and seeking His mercy.
50 Old Testament Bible Verses About Repentance (NKJV)
2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Isaiah 55:7 – “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Joel 2:12-13 – “Now, therefore,’ says the LORD, ‘Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.’ So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm.”
Ezekiel 18:30 – “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin.’”
Hosea 14:1 – “O Israel, return to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.”
Psalm 51:10 – “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Proverbs 28:13 – “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”
Jeremiah 3:12 – “Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: ‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the LORD; ‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful,’ says the LORD; ‘I will not remain angry forever.’”
Jeremiah 3:22 – “Return, O backsliding children,’ says the LORD; ‘for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.’”
Jeremiah 4:1 – “If you will return, O Israel,’ says the LORD, ‘return to Me; and if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, then you shall not be moved.’”
Ezekiel 33:11 – “Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’”
Isaiah 1:18 – “‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ says the LORD, ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.’”
Psalm 32:5 – “I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,’ and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.”
Zechariah 1:3 – “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Turn to Me,” says the LORD of hosts, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD of hosts.’”
Isaiah 30:15 – “For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: ‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.’”
Jonah 3:10 – “Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.”
Joel 2:13 – “And rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm.”
Hosea 6:1 – “Come, and let us return to the LORD; for He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.”
Hosea 14:2 – “Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Say to Him, ‘Take away all iniquity; receive us graciously, for we will offer the sacrifices of our lips.’”
Micah 6:8 – “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”
Isaiah 57:18-19 – “I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners. I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is near,’ says the LORD, ‘and I will heal him.’”
Psalm 51:12 – “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit.”
Jeremiah 18:8 – “And if that nation, against which I have pronounced, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.”
Ezekiel 18:32 – “For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘Therefore turn and live!’”
Isaiah 44:22 – “I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”
Joel 2:14 – “Who knows if He will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?”
Proverbs 3:11-12 – “My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, nor detest His correction; for whom the LORD loves He corrects, just as a father the son in whom he delights.”
Isaiah 59:20 – “The Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” says the LORD.”
Ezekiel 36:31 – “Then you shall remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations.”
Hosea 14:4 – “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, for My anger has turned away from him.”
Isaiah 1:16 – “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil.”
Jeremiah 25:5 – “Turn now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of his doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.”
Zechariah 7:9-10 – “Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion everyone to his brother; do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor. Let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’”
Psalm 106:6 – “We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.”
Psalm 34:18 – “The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.”
Isaiah 66:2 – “But on this one I will look: on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word.”
Hosea 5:15 – “I will return again to My place till they acknowledge their offense and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Joel 2:17 – “Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, ‘Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not give Your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them.’”
Jeremiah 18:11 – “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Return, everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.”’”
Psalm 130:3-4 – “If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.”
Isaiah 48:18 – “Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.”
Ezekiel 14:6 – “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.”’”
Jeremiah 18:12 – “But they say, ‘It shall not happen, for we will follow our own plans, and everyone will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
Hosea 10:12 – “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, till He comes and rains righteousness on you.”
Psalm 19:13 – “Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.”
Proverbs 1:23 – “Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.”
Isaiah 10:22 – “Though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a remnant will return; the destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.”
Psalm 66:18 – “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.”
Joel 2:15-16 – “Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a sacred assembly; gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.”
Zechariah 1:4 – “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the LORD.”
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