REPENTANCE

(A complete reversal of one's attitude and values, i. e. a turning toward God)

Attributed to God

Ge 6:6,7; Ex 32:14; De 32:36; Jud 2:18; 1Sa 15:11,29,35; 2Sa 24:16; 1Ch 21:15; Ps 106:45; 110:4; 135:14; Jer 15:6; 18:8,10; 26:3; 42:10; Joe 2:13; Am 7:3,6; Jon 3:9,10

The burden of the preaching

Of John the Baptist

Mt 3

Of Jesus

Mt 4:17; Mr 1:15

Exhortation to

Pr 1:23-33; Jer 7:3,5; 26:3; Ho 14:1-3; Am 5:4-6; Mt 3:2

Condition of God's favor

Le 26:40-42; 2Ch 7:14

Unavailing

To Israel

Nu 14:39-45

To Esau

Heb 12:16,17

UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO

Le 26:40-42; De 4:29-31; 10:16; 30:1-3,8-10; 32:29; 1Ki 8:33-50; 2Ch 6:36-39; 7:14; 30:6-9; Ne 1:9; Job 11:13-15; 22:23; 33:26-28; 34:31,32; 36:10; Ps 22:27; 34:14,18; 51:17; 95:7,8; 147:3; Pr 1:22,23; 9:6; 28:13; Isa 10:21; 22:12; 31:6; 44:22; 46:8; 55:6,7; 57:15; 59:20; 61:1,2; Jer 3:4,12-14,19; 4:1-4,14; 6:8,16; 7:5,7; 13:15,16; 18:8,11; 24:7; 25:5; 26:3,13; 31:9; 36:3,7; 50:4,5; Eze 7:16; 11:18-20; 12:3; 14:6; 16:61-63; 18:21-23,27,28,30-32; 20:43; 33:10-12,14-16,19; 36:31; 37:23; Da 4:27; Ho 2:7; 3:5; 5:15; 10:12; 12:6; 14:1,2; Joe 1:14; 2:12,13,15-18; Am 4:12; 5:6,15; Jon 3:8,9; Hag 1:7; Zec 1:3; 12:10; Mal 3:7; Mt 3:2,7,8; 4:17; 5:4; 9:13; Mr 1:4,15; 2:17; 6:12; Lu 3:3; 5:32; 6:21; 10:13; 13:1-5; 15:1-10; 18:10-14; 24:47; Ac 2:38,40; 3:19; 5:31; 8:22; 17:30; 20:21; 26:20; Ro 2:4; 11:23; 14:11; Eph 5:14; 2Ti 2:25; Heb 6:1; Jas 4:8-10; 1Jo 1:9; Re 2:5; 3:2,3,19

See CONVICTION

See PENITENCE

See REMORSE

See SIN, CONFESSION OF

See SIN, FORGIVENESS OF

INSTANCES OF

Joseph's brothers, of their maltreatment of Joseph

Ge 42:21; 50:17,18

Pharaoh, of his hardness of heart

Ex 9:27; 10:16,17

Balaam, of his spiritual blindness

Nu 22:34; with 22:24-35

Israelites

Of worshiping the golden calf

Ex 33:3,4

Of their complaining because of lack of bread and water, when the plague of fiery serpents came upon them

Nu 21:4-7

When rebuked by an angel for not expelling the Canaanites

Jud 2:1-5

Of their idolatry, when afflicted by the Philistines

Jud 10:6-16; 1Sa 7:3-6

In asking for a king

1Sa 12:16-20

In the time of Asa, by the preaching of Azariah

2Ch 15:1-15

By the preaching of Oded

2Ch 28:9-15

Under the influence of Hezekiah

2Ch 30:11

Achan, because of his theft

Jos 7:20

Saul, at the rebuke of Samuel for not destroying the Amalekites

1Sa 15:24; with 15:6-31

David, at the rebuke of Nathan, the prophet, for his sins of adultery and murder

2Sa 12:11,13; with 12:7-14

See PSALMS, PENITENTIAL

Rehoboam, when his kingdom was invaded, and Jerusalem was besieged

2Ch 12:1-12

Hezekiah, at the time of his sickness

2Ch 32:26

When reproved by the prophet Micah

Jer 26:18,19

Ahab, when reproved by Elijah for Ahab's idolatry

1Ki 21:27; with 21:17-29

Jehoahaz

2Ki 13:4

Josiah, when he heard the law of God which had been discovered in the temple by Hilkiah

2Ki 22:11-20

Manasseh, when he was carried away captive to Babylon by the king of Assyria

2Ch 33:12,13

The Jews of the exile

At the dedication of the second temple

Ezr 6:21

Because of their idolatrous marriages

Ezr 10

Because of their oppressive usury

Ne 5:1-13

After hearing the law expounded by Ezra

Ne 8:1-12; 9:1-3

By the preaching of Haggai

Hag 1

Jonah, after his punishment

Jon 2:2-9

The Ninevites, by the preaching of Jonah

Jon 3:5-9

The Jews, by the preaching of John the Baptist

Mt 3:6

The woman who anointed Jesus with oil

Lu 7:37-48

The disobedient son

Mt 21:29

The Prodigal Son

Lu 15:17-21

Peter, because of his denial of Jesus

Mt 26:75; Mr 14:72; Lu 22:62

Judas

Mt 27:3-5; Ac 1:16,18

The Ephesians, by the preaching of Paul

Ac 19:18

EXEMPLIFIED

Nu 21:7; 2Sa 24:10,17; 1Ch 21:17; 2Ch 29:6; Ezr 9:4,6,10,13,14; Ne 1:6,7; 9:16-37; Job 7:20; 9:20; 13:23; 40:4; 42:5; Ps 32:5; 38:3,4,18; 40:12; 41:4; 51:1-4,7-17; 69:5,10; 73:21,22; 106:6; 119:59,176; 130:1-3; Isa 6:5; 38:15,17; 59:12-15; 64:5-7; Jer 3:21,22,25; 8:14; 14:7,20; 31:18,19; La 3:40,41; Da 9:5-7; 10:12; Ho 6:1; 14:3,8; Jon 3:10; Mic 7:9; Lu 15:17-20; 1Co 15:9; 2Co 7:9-11; 1Pe 2:25

See SIN, CONFESSION OF