Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come [One] more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with [the] Holy Spirit and with fire.

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching [a] baptism of repentance for [the] forgiveness of sins.

He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for [the] forgiveness of sins,

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And {do} not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham [as our] father. For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

I have not come to call [the] righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

I tell you that in the same way there will be [more] joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

God exalted Him to His right hand [as] Prince and Savior, [ in order ] to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

[When] they heard [this], they had no further [objections], and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.

Before the arrival of [Jesus], John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the [One] coming after him, that is, in Jesus.

testifying to Jews and Greeks alike {about} repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy [of their] repentance.

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

[yet] now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended and so were not harmed in [any way] by us.

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

[He must] gently reprove those who oppose [him], in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of [the] truth.

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ [and] go on to maturity, not laying again [the] foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,

and then have fallen away — to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God {all over again} and subjecting [Him] to open shame.

For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought [the blessing] with tears.

The Lord is not slow [in keeping] [His] promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.