Quotes About Repentance

Father forgive me for I have sinned. -Damian

But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”

So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.

Then they all tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of Godís thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.

But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.