Penitent
43 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Promises To
- Leviticus 26:40–42 But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— …
- Numbers 5:6–7 “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty …
- Deuteronomy 4:29–31 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. …
- Deuteronomy 5:29 If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
- Deuteronomy 30:1–10 “When all these things come upon you— the blessings and curses I have set before you— and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, …
- 2 Kings 22:19 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes …
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by …
- Job 22:23–29 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents …
- Job 23:6 Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
- Job 33:26–28 He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man. …
- Psalm 6:8–9 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping. …
- Psalm 9:10 Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
- Psalm 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
- Psalm 24:3–6 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? …
- Psalm 32:5–6 Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah …
- Psalm 34:18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
- Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
- Psalm 70:4 May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”
- Psalm 90:14–15 Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. …
- Psalm 145:18–19 The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth. …
- Psalm 147:3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Isaiah 27:5 Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.”
- Ezekiel 18:21–23 But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die. …
- Ezekiel 33:10–16 Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’ …
- Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- Matthew 6:14–15 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. …
- Matthew 7:7–11 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. …
- Matthew 11:28–30 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. …
- Matthew 12:20 A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
- Matthew 12:31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
- Matthew 18:11–14
- Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
- Luke 6:37 Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
- Luke 11:9–13 So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. …
- Luke 12:10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
- Luke 15:4–32 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? …
- Luke 18:10–14 “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. …
- Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- John 6:37 Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
- John 10:9 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
- Acts 13:38–39 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. …
- Romans 10:9–13 that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. …
- 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Joy in HeavenProdigal SonJoy of the Father, when his Prodigal Son ReturnedLost Sheep
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.