The best Bible verses for repentance for prayer include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for repentance for prayer, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes."Luke 10:13
"“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes."Luke 10:13
"The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here."Luke 11:32
"I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent."Luke 15:7
"In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”"Luke 15:10
"“‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’"Luke 16:30
"If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”"Luke 17:4
"“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!”"Mark 1:15
"Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent."Matthew 11:20
"“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes."Matthew 11:21
A verse used for repentance for prayer works differently from one you read once. It gets returned to, repeated, and sat with — so it needs enough depth to reward a second and tenth reading, and enough clarity that you are not decoding it every time.
The 15 passages here hold up to repetition. Each is short enough to carry from memory and substantial enough that it does not wear out.
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The most-cited Bible verses for repentance for prayer are Luke 10:13, Luke 11:32, Luke 13:3. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to repentance for prayer across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for repentance for prayer, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.