Repent, Repentance and Repenting

New Testament only, 37 verses (English Standard Version, ESV) Click Here to download this file to your "Downloads" Folder for FREE.      You can repent and ask Jesus into your heart anytime, anyplace. It is very easy, just say from your heart,
     Father forgive me of my sins and Jesus come into my heart, fill me with you, and lead me in everything I do, lead me to a real good church and show me how to live my life, Jesus Name.
     But many people want to know why they should repent? Because God says you need it.

Salvation is for everyone, but you have to want it with your heart
1. Matthew 9:11-13 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 11. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12. But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13. Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
2. Luke 5:31-32 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 31. And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
3. Luke 15:7 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 7. Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
4. Luke 15:10 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 10. Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
5. Luke 17:3-4 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 3. Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, 4. and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
6. Luke 24:46-48 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 46. and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 47. and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48. You are witnesses of these things.
7. Acts 2:38 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 38. And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
8. Acts 3:18-19 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 18. But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. 19. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
9. Acts 11:15-18 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 15. As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning. 16. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17. If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?” 18. When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”
10. Acts 17:22-31 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 22. So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25. nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27. that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28. for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ 29. Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31. because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
11. Acts 20:20-25 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 20. how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, 21. testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. 22. And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23. except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. 24. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 25. And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again.
12. 2 Timothy 2: 24-25 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 24. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25. correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
13. James 4:1-17 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 1. What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2. You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 6. But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 11. Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? 13. Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14. yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16. As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
14. 2 Peter 3:9 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 9. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
15. 1 John 1:9 (esv), Salvation is for everyone 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Jesus is the Answer
16. Romans 6:23 (esv), Jesus is the Answer 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
17. Matthew 4:16-17 (esv), Jesus is the Answer 16. The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.” 17. From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
18. John 1:1 (esv), Jesus is the Answer 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word (Jesus) was God.
19. John 3:16 (esv), Jesus is the Answer 16. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
20. John 10:10 (esv), Jesus is the Answer 10. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
21. Acts 2:38 (esv), Jesus is the Answer 38. And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
22. Acts 4:12 (esv), Jesus is the Answer 12. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

     Father forgive me of my sins and Jesus come into my heart, fill me with you, and lead me in everything I do, lead me to a real good church and show me how to live my life, Jesus Name.

Stop Sinning and Start Acting Like a Child of God
23. Matthew 3:5-10 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 5. Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, 6. and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8. Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 9. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
24. Matthew 21:31-32 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 31. Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. 32. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
25. Mark 1:14-15 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 14. Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 15. and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
26. Mark 6:10-14 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 10. And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. 11. And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” 12. So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. 13. And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them. 14. King Herod heard of it, for Jesus' name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”
27. Acts 5:30-32 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 30. The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. 31. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 32. And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
28. Romans 2:4-5 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 4. Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5. But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
29. 2 Corinthians 7:9-10 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 9. As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 10. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
30. Revelation 2:4-5 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 4. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 5. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
31. Revelation 3:2-5 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 2. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. 3. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. 4. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 5. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
32. Revelation 3:19 (esv), Stop Sinning and start acting like the children of God 19. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

The Children of God put Jesus First. They are ALL IN!!
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33. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (esv), 5. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be [written] on your heart and mind. 7. You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. 8. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand (forearm), and they shall be used as bands (frontals, frontlets) on your forehead. 9. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
34. Matthew 5:6 (esv), 6.“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
35. Matthew 6:19-24 (esv), 19.“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20. but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22. “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23. but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24. “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
36. Matthew 6:31-33 (esv), 31.Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32. For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
37. Matthew 10:37-39 (esv), 37.Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
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Repent, Repentance and Repenting

(English Standard Version, ESV), New Testament only, 37 verses written: 10-31-2018, updated: 4-1-2019