Quotes About Repentance

“Man, I do not know what you are talking about,” Peter replied. While he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.

And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

And he went outside and wept bitterly.

One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!”

But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment?

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!”

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.

Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them

When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”

And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.

When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”

That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:

in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

Simon Peter was still standing and warming himself. So they asked him, “Arenít you also one of His disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”

Peter denied it once more, and immediately a rooster crowed.

If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”

(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.

When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”