Biblical Concept: Repent
Prologue
The main Greek vocabulary is: metanoe,w / metanoeo.
Literally: with mind. More
than casual thought is the idea.
Findings
God, repent, not.
God’s repentance wish.
Kindness of God, repentance, relationship.
Eternal repentance.
Repent deadline.
Repentance and sin relationship.
Repentance, sin, and judgment relationship.
Life without repentance is wasted time.
Life without repentance is wasted life.
Job’s repent.
Judgement, no repent, relationship.
Reproach, no repent relationship.
Repent and eternal salvation relationship.
Humans exist to use their minds to choose for God.
Humans exist to use their minds to live for God.
Salvation: “repent and turn to God”
Sinners need repentance.
Repent forgive relationship.
The relationship between sorrow, repentance, and no regret.
Repentance follow-through.
Repentant righteous relationship.
“repent and believe in the gospel”
“Repent and turn away from your idols”
“Repent and turn away from all your transgressions”
“repent and live”
“repentance for forgiveness of sins”
“the repentance that leads to
life”
“a baptism of repentance”
“John baptized with the baptism of repentance”
“I baptize you with water for repentance”
“No man repented of his wickedness”
Nineveh: “they repented at the preaching of Jonah”
“not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have
practiced”
“if he repents, forgive him”
“repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ”
“repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance”
NAS Matthew 3:2 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand."
NAS Mark 6:12 And they went out and preached that men should repent.
NAS Luke 13:3 "I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you
will all likewise perish.
NAS Acts 17:30 "Therefore having overlooked the times of
ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent,
NAS Romans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His
kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God
leads you to repentance?
NAS 2 Corinthians 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance
without regret, leading to salvation;
but the sorrow of the world produces death.
NAS 2 Timothy 2:25 with gentleness correcting those who are in
opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge
of the truth,
NAS Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the
Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of
repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
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and then have fallen away, it is
impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to
themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open shame.
NAS 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some
count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but
for all to come to repentance.
Repent
NAS Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a
son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has
He spoken, and will He not make it good? (God, repent, not.)
47 if they take thought
in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make
supplication to Thee in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying,
'We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly'; (Humans
exist to use their minds to live for God.) (Life without repentance is wasted
time.)
NAS 2 Chronicles 6:37 if they take thought in the land where they are
taken captive, and repent and make supplication to Thee in the land of their
captivity, saying, 'We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, and have acted
wickedly'; (Humans exist to use their minds to live for God.) (Life without
repentance is wasted time.)
NAS Job 42:6 Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and
ashes." (Job’s repent.)
NAS Psalm 7:12 If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His
sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready. (No repent, judgement, relationship.)
NAS Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Thine eyes look for truth? Thou
hast smitten them, But they did not
weaken; Thou hast consumed them, But they refused to take correction. They have
made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent. (Humans exist
to use their minds to live for God.) (Life without repentance is wasted time.)
NAS Jeremiah 8:4 "And you shall say to them, 'Thus says the
LORD, "Do men fall and not get
up again? Does one turn away and not repent? (Context: No.)
NAS Jeremiah 15:7 "And I will winnow them with a winnowing
fork At the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people; They did not repent of
their ways. (Judgement, no repent, relationship.)
NAS Jeremiah 26:3 'Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn
from his evil way, that I may repent of the calamity which I am planning to do
to them because of the evil of their deeds.' (Judgement, no repent,
relationship.)
NAS Ezekiel 14:6 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus
says the Lord God, "Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn your
faces away from all your abominations. (“Repent and turn away from your idols”)
NAS Ezekiel 18:30 "Therefore I will judge you, O house of
Israel, each according to his conduct," declares the Lord God.
"Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may
not become a stumbling block to you. (“Repent and turn away from all your
transgressions”) (Judgement, no repent, relationship.)
32 "For I have no
pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord God.
"Therefore, repent and live." (“repent and live”) (Judgement, no
repent, relationship.)
NAS Matthew 3:2 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand." (All)
NAS Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say,
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
NAS Matthew 11:20 Then He began to reproach the cities in which
most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent. (Reproach, no
repent relationship.)
NAS Mark 1:15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the
kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." (“repent and
believe in the gospel”)
NAS Mark 6:12 And they went out and preached that men should repent. (All)
NAS Luke 13:3 "I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you
will all likewise perish. (“All”)
5 "I tell you, no,
but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." (Judgement, no
repent, relationship.)
NAS Luke 16:30 "But he said, 'No, Father Abraham, but if
someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!' (Repent deadline.) (Life
without repentance is wasted life.)
NAS Luke 17:4 "And if he sins against you seven times a
day, and returns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him." (Repent
forgive relationship.)
NAS Acts 2:38 And Peter said
to them, "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit. (Eternal repentance.) (Repent and eternal salvation relationship.)
(Humans exist to use their minds to choose for God.)
NAS Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore and return, that your sins
may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence
of the Lord; (Repent and eternal salvation relationship.) (Humans exist to use
their minds to choose for God.)
NAS Acts 8:22 "Therefore repent of this wickedness of
yours, and pray the Lord that if possible, the intention of your heart may be
forgiven you. (Judgement, no repent, relationship.)
NAS Acts 17:30 "Therefore having overlooked the times of
ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent, (All)
(Repent and eternal salvation relationship.) (Humans exist to use their minds
to choose for God.)
NAS Acts 26:20 but kept declaring
both to those of Damascus first, and also
at Jerusalem and then throughout
all the region of Judea, and even to
the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds
appropriate to repentance. (Salvation: “repent and turn to God”)
NAS Revelation 2:5 'Remember therefore from where you have fallen,
and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you, and
will remove your lampstand out of its place-- unless you repent. (Humans exist
to use their minds to live for God.) (Life without repentance is wasted time.)
16 'Repent therefore; or
else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the
sword of My mouth. (Judgement, no repent, relationship.)
21 'And I gave her time
to repent; and she does not want to repent of her immorality. (Judgement, no
repent, relationship.)
22 'Behold, I will cast
her upon a bed of sickness, and those
who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her
deeds. (Judgement, no repent, relationship.)
NAS Revelation 3:3 'Remember therefore what you have received and
heard; and keep it, and repent. If
therefore you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know
at what hour I will come upon you. (Humans exist to use their minds to live for
God.) (Life without repentance is wasted time.)
19 'Those whom I love, I
reprove and discipline; be zealous therefore, and repent. (Humans exist to use
their minds to live for God.) (Life without repentance is wasted time.)
NAS Revelation 9:20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by
these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to 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; (Life without repentance is
wasted life.) (Judgement, no repent, relationship.)
21 and they did not
repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of
their thefts. (Life without repentance is wasted life.) (Judgement, no repent, relationship.)
NAS Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with fierce heat; and they
blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues; and they did
not repent, so as to give Him glory. (Life without repentance is wasted life.)
11 and they blasphemed
the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not
repent of their deeds. (Life without repentance is wasted life.)
Repentance
NAS Isaiah 30:15 For thus the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
has said, "In repentance and rest you shall be saved, In quietness and
trust is your strength." But you were not willing, (Judgement, no repent,
relationship.)
NAS Matthew 3:8 "Therefore bring forth fruit in keeping with
repentance; (Repentance follow-through.)
11 "As for me, I
baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is
mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit and fire. (“I baptize you with water for repentance”)
NAS Mark 1:4 John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness
preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. (Repentance and
sin relationship.)
NAS Luke 3:3 And he came into all the district around the
Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;
(Repentance and sin relationship.)
8 "Therefore bring
forth fruits in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves,
'We have Abraham for our father,' for I say to you that God is able from these
stones to raise up children to Abraham. (“Repentance follow-through.”)
NAS Luke 5:32 "I have not come to call the righteous but
sinners to repentance." (Sinners need repentance.)
NAS Luke 15:7 "I tell you that in the same way, there will
be more joy in heaven over one sinner
who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. (Sinners
need repentance.)
NAS Luke 24:47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins
should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. (Sinners
need repentance.) (“repentance for forgiveness of sins”)
NAS Acts 5:31 "He is the one whom God exalted to His right
hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness
of sins. (Repentance, sin, and judgment relationship.)
NAS Acts 11:18 And when they heard this, they quieted down, and
glorified God, saying, "Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also
the repentance that leads to
life." (“the repentance that leads to
life”)
NAS Acts 13:24 after John had proclaimed before His coming a
baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. (“a baptism of repentance”)
NAS Acts 19:4 And Paul said, "John baptized with the
baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming
after him, that is, in Jesus." (“John baptized with the baptism of
repentance”)
NAS Acts 20:21 solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of
repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. (“repentance toward
God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ”)
NAS Acts 26:20 but kept declaring
both to those of Damascus first, and also
at Jerusalem and then throughout
all the region of Judea, and even to
the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds
appropriate to repentance. (“repent and turn to God, performing deeds
appropriate to repentance”)
NAS Romans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His
kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God
leads you to repentance? (All) (Kindness of God, repentance, relationship.)
NAS 2 Corinthians 7:9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful,
but that you were made sorrowful to the
point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, in order that you might
not suffer loss in anything through us. (Humans exist to use their minds to
live for God.)
10 For the sorrow that is
according to the will of God produces
a repentance without regret, leading to
salvation; but the sorrow of the world produces death. (All) (Humans exist to
use their minds to live for God.) (The relationship between sorrow, repentance,
and no regret.)
NAS 2 Timothy 2:25 with gentleness correcting those who are in
opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge
of the truth, (All) (Humans exist to use their minds to live for God.) (Life
without repentance is wasted time.)
NAS Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about
the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of
repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, (All) (Humans exist to use
their minds to live for God.) (Life without repentance is wasted time.)
6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible
to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the
Son of God, and put Him to open shame. (All) (Humans exist to use their minds
to live for God.) (Life without repentance is wasted time.)
NAS Hebrews 12:17 For you know that even afterwards, when he
desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for
repentance, though he sought for it with tears. (Repent deadline.)
NAS 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some
count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but
for all to come to repentance. (All) (God’s repentance wish.) (Humans exist to
use their minds to choose for God.)
Repentant
NAS Isaiah 1:27 Zion will be redeemed with justice, And her
repentant ones with righteousness. (Repentant righteous relationship.)
Repented
NAS Jeremiah 8:6 "I have listened and heard, They have spoken
what is not right; No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, 'What have I
done?' Everyone turned to his course, Like a horse charging into the battle. (“No
man repented of his wickedness”)
NAS Jeremiah 31:19 'For after I turned back, I repented; And after I
was instructed, I smote on my thigh;
I was ashamed, and also humiliated, Because I bore the reproach of my youth.' (Context:
Ephraim’s repent)
NAS Zechariah 1:6 "But did not My words and My statutes, which
I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented
and said, 'As the LORD of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our
ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.'"'" (Context: Repentance,
sin, and judgment relationship.)
NAS Matthew 11:21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you,
Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in
you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. (Context: Reproach,
no repent relationship.) (Context: Repentance, sin, and judgment relationship.)
NAS Matthew 12:41 "The men of Nineveh shall stand up with this
generation at the judgment, and shall condemn it because they repented at the
preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. (Nineveh:
“they repented at the preaching of Jonah”)
NAS Luke 10:13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you,
Bethsaida! For if the miracles had been performed in Tyre and Sidon which
occurred in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and
ashes. (Humans exist to use their minds to choose for God.)
NAS Luke 11:32 "The men of Nineveh shall stand up with this
generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the
preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. (Nineveh:
“they repented at the preaching of Jonah”)
NAS 2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again my God may
humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in
the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they
have practiced. (“not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which
they have practiced”) (Life without repentance is wasted time.)
Repents
NAS Luke 15:7 "I tell you that in the same way, there will
be more joy in heaven over one sinner
who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. (Humans
exist to use their minds to choose for God.)
10 "In the same way,
I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner
who repents." (All) (Humans exist to use their minds to choose for God.)
NAS Luke 17:3 "Be on your guard! If your brother sins,
rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. (“if he repents, forgive him”)