Repentance (metanoia)

Original word

μετάνοια

Transliteration

metanoia

Strong's

G3341

A radical change of mind and direction; turning from sin to God — not mere regret but a reorientation to a new life.

Concordance in this edition

• 2 Corinthians 7:10 — For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
• Job 42:6 — Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
• Psalms 51:17 — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
• Jeremiah 4:28 — For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
• Jeremiah 8:6 — I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
• Jeremiah 31:19 — Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
• Hosea 11:5 — “They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.
• Matthew 3:2 — “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
• Matthew 3:8 — Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• Matthew 3:11 — I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
• Matthew 4:17 — From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
• Matthew 9:13 — But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
• Matthew 11:20 — Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.
• Matthew 11:21 — “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
• Matthew 12:41 — The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
• Matthew 21:32 — 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.
• Matthew 27:3 — Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• Mark 1:4 — John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
• Mark 1:15 — and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
• Mark 2:17 — When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
• Mark 6:12 — They went out and preached that people should repent.
• Luke 3:3 — He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
• Luke 3:8 — Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
• Luke 5:32 — I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
• Luke 10:13 — “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
• Luke 11:32 — The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
• Luke 13:3 — I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
• Luke 13:5 — I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
• Luke 15:7 — 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 — Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
• Luke 16:30 — “He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
• Luke 17:3 — Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
• Luke 17:4 — If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
• Luke 24:47 — and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Acts 2:38 — Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 3:19 — “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
• Acts 5:31 — God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
• Acts 8:22 — Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
• Acts 11:18 — When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
• Acts 13:24 — before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
• Acts 17:30 — The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• Acts 19:4 — Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
• Acts 20:21 — testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
• Acts 26:20 — 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.
• Romans 2:4 — Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
• Romans 2:5 — But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
• 2 Corinthians 7:8 — For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.
• 2 Corinthians 7:9 — I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
• 2 Corinthians 12:21 — that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
• 2 Timothy 2:25 — in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• Hebrews 6:1 — Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
• Hebrews 6:6 — and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
• 2 Peter 3:9 — The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Revelation 2:5 — Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
• Revelation 2:16 — Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
• Revelation 2:21 — I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
• Revelation 2:22 — Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.
• Revelation 3:3 — Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• Revelation 3:19 — As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Revelation 9:20 — The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

Bible references

• Mark 1:15
• Acts 3:19
• Luke 15:7

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