Bible Verses for Repentance Msg

"but only after John had thoroughly alerted the people to his arrival by preparing them for a total life-change."

""That explains it," said Paul. "John preached a baptism of radical life-change so that people would be ready to receive the One coming after him, who turned out to be Jesus. If you've been baptized in John's baptism, you're ready now for the real thing, for Jesus.""

"urging Jews and Greeks alike to a radical life-change before God and an equally radical trust in our Master Jesus."

"I started preaching this life-change—this radical turn to God and everything it meant in everyday life—right there in Damascus, went on to Jerusalem and the surrounding countryside, and from there to the whole world."

""I'll arrive in Zion as Redeemer, to those in Jacob who leave their sins." God's Decree."

"But you, God, you have an eye for truth, don't you? You hit them hard, but it didn't faze them. You disciplined them, but they refused correction. Hardheaded, harder than rock, they wouldn't change."

"I listened carefully but heard not so much as a whisper. No one expressed one word of regret. Not a single "I'm sorry" did I hear. They just kept at it, blindly and stupidly banging their heads against a brick wall."

"But if they repent of their wicked lives, I will think twice and start over with them."

"After those years of running loose, I repented. After you trained me to obedience, I was ashamed of my past, my wild, unruly past. Humiliated, I beat on my chest. Will I ever live this down?'"

"" 'And now, you—what have you done? First you turned back to the right way and did the right thing, decreeing freedom for your brothers and sisters—and you made it official in a solemn covenant in my Temple."

""Doom, Chorazin! Doom, Bethsaida! If Tyre and Sidon had been given half the chances given you, they'd have been on their knees long ago, repenting and crying for mercy."

"On Judgment Day the Queen of Sheba will come forward and bring evidence that condemns this generation, because she traveled from a far corner of the earth to listen to wise Solomon. Wisdom far greater than Solomon's is right in front of you, and you quibble over 'evidence.'"

"Not at all. Unless you turn to God, you too will die."

"Not at all. Unless you turn to God, you too will die.""

"Count on it—there's more joy in heaven over one sinner's rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in no need of rescue."