Quotes About Repentance

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

But he denied it. “I do not know or even understand what you are talking about,” he said. Then he went out to the gateway, and the rooster crowed.

But he began to curse and swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak!”

And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he broke down and wept.

Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God.

to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ëWe have Abraham as our father.í For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesusí knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged Godís justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected Godís purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.

As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.

When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”

“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

“I suppose the one who was forgiven more,” Simon replied. “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.