Quotes About Repentance

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead menís bones and every kind of impurity.

And you say, ëIf we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.í

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Look, your house is left to you desolate.

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”

And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man!”

At that he began to curse and swear to them, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.

Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

“The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!”

Truly I tell you, the sons of men will be forgiven all sins and blasphemies, as many as they utter.

So they set out and preached that the people should repent.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

where ëtheir worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.í

Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ëMy house will be called a house of prayer for all the nationsí? But you have made it ëa den of robbers.í”