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Have you ever noticed that the Bible doesn’t hide the failures of our heroes of the faith?

• Noah
• Abraham
• Isaac
• Jacob
• Samson
• Jonah

All of these men, and others, failed God.

Some of them failed God in big ways. Hebrews 11 is quite a motley crew of men who did very bad and questionable things.

But there is another attribute that sets them apart from men like Saul, Cain, and Esau —

And that is repentance.

It isn’t a question of whether or not we will fail God. It’s a question of when and how often. But a greater question is: What will we do when we are aware of how we’ve failed God?

Will we harden our hearts? Will we try to justify our sin? Will we try to find a verse to excuse our sin? Or will we humble ourselves and repent?

Repentance goes beyond feeling sorry for our sin.

Repentance even goes beyond acknowledging that we have failed. Many will acknowledge their failure, and then try to rise from their failures by their own wisdom and wit.

That is not repentance.

Repentance, true biblical repentance, is acknowledging to God that we are a sinner, and we are hopeless in our situation. We cannot save ourselves and without a Savior we are hopelessly and helplessly lost.

Then, repentance goes a step further – making a choice to turn away from our sin and walk a different path.

Does this mean we will not be tempted? No.

Does this mean we may not stumble a time or two? No.

But what it does mean is that we gain a different way of thinking about our sin. We change our opinion about our sin.

We agree with God and His Word about our sin.

Without this kind of repentance, we will never know the joy of God’s forgiveness and favor in our life.

This is what we see in Jonah chapter 2, while he is the belly of the great fish, Jonah cries out to the Lord and has a complete change of heart regarding God’s call to Nineveh.

And then in chapter 3:1-3, we see that God once again calls Jonah to go to Nineveh, and he goes.

Here are 10 Bible verses about repentance that we need know and meditate on.

10 Bible Verses About Repentance

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16

I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,’ and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Psalm 32:5

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 1 John 2:1-2

Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:14

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Colossians 2:13-14

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:10-12

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. 2 Corinthians 7:10

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise, Psalm 51:17

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