Bible on Repentance

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked:

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.