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Appearances of Repent NT

• Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
• Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
• Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Matthew 11:20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
• Matthew 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
• Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
• Matthew 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
• Matthew 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
• Matthew 21:32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
• Matthew 27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• Mark 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
• Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
• Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Mark 6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
• Luke 3:3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
• Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
• Luke 5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Luke 10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
• Luke 11:32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
• Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
• Luke 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

• Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
• Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
• Luke 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
• Luke 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
• Luke 17:4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
• Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
• Acts 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
• Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
• Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
• Acts 13:24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
• Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
• Acts 19:4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

• Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
• Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
• Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
• 2 Corinthians 7:8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
• 2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
• 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
• 2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• 2 Timothy 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
• Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
• Hebrews 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
• Hebrews 7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
• Hebrews 12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
• 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
• Revelation 2:16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
• Revelation 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
• Revelation 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
• Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
• Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
• Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
• Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
• Revelation 16:11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

Appearances of Repent OT

Genesis 6:6 And it repented(NunChetMem nacham) the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth(NunChetMem nacham) me that I have made them.

• We should note that the same virtual word is translated differently in numerous other verses.

Genesis 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort(NunChetMem nacham) us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted(NunChetMem nacham) after his mother’s [death].

Genesis 27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort(NunChetMem nacham) himself, [purposing] to kill thee.

Genesis 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort <05162> him; but he refused to be comforted <05162>; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 38:12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted(NunChetMem nacham), and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Genesis 50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted(NunChetMem nacham) them, and spake kindly unto them.

Exodus 13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent(NunChetMem nacham) they see war, and they return to Egypt:

Exodus 32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent(NunChetMem nacham) of this evil against thy people.

Exodus 32:14 And the LORD repented(NunChetMem nacham) of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent(NunChetMem nacham): hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent(NunChetMem nacham) himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left.

Judges 2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented(NunChetMem nacham) the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

Judges 21:6 And the children of Israel repented(NunChetMem nacham) them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

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Judges 21:15 And the people repented(NunChetMem nacham) them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

• Nacham does appear in Ruth but is translated comforted again. Ruth 2:13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted <05162> me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.

1 Samuel 15:11 It repenteth(NunChetMem nacham) me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent(NunChetMem nacham) : for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.

1 Samuel 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented(NunChetMem nacham) that he had made Saul king over Israel.

2 Samuel 24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented(NunChetMem nacham) him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

• Again in Samuel Nacham is translated comfort numerous times.

2 Samuel 10:2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort(NunChetMem nacham) him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 10:3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters(NunChetMem nacham) unto thee? hath not David [rather] sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

2 Samuel 12:24 And David comforted(NunChetMem nacham) Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

2 Samuel 13:39 And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted(NunChetMem nacham) concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

1 Kings 8:47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent(ShinVavBeit shuwb):, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented(NunChetMem nacham) him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• Nacham again appears as forms of comfort rather than tepent in

1 Chronicles 7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort(NunChetMem nacham) him.

1 Chronicles 19:2 And David said, I will shew kindness

Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort(NunChetMem nacham) him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfor(NunChetMem nacham) him.

1 Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters(NunChetMem nacham) unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent(NunChetMem nacham) in dust and ashes.

• Again Nacham appears as forms of comfort.

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Job 2:11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort(NunChetMem nacham) him.

Job 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort <05162> me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters(NunChetMem nacham) [are] ye all.

Job 21:34 How then comfort(NunChetMem nacham) ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth <05162> the mourners.

Job 42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all: they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted(NunChetMem nacham) him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

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Psalms 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent(NunChetMem nacham) thee concerning thy servants.

Psalms 106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented(NunChetMem nacham) according to the multitude of his mercies.

Psalms 110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent(NunChetMem nacham), Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Psalms 135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent(NunChetMem nacham) himself concerning his servants.

• Nacham is also translated comfort numerous times in Psalms,ecclesiastes4:1, Isaiah 1:24 (ease), Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 22:4, Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 49:13, Isaiah 51:3, 12, 19...

Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent(NunChetMem nacham), neither will I turn back from it.

Jeremiah 8:6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented(NunChetMem nacham) him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

Jeremiah 15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

Jeremiah 18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent(NunChetMem nacham) of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

Jeremiah 18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent(NunChetMem nacham) of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Jeremiah 20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

Jeremiah 26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent(NunChetMem nacham) me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

Jeremiah 26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent(NunChetMem nacham) him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented(NunChetMem nacham) him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

Jeremiah 31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented(NunChetMem nacham); and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Jeremiah 42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I repent(NunChetMem nacham) me of the evil that I have done unto you.

• Nacham appears numerous times in Lamentations and Ezekiel as comfort.

Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent(ShinVavBeit shuwb), and turn [yourselves] from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent(ShinVavBeit shuwb), and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 24:14 I the LORD have spoken [it]: it shall come to pass, and I will do [it]; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent(NunChetMem nacham); according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

Hosea 11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings(NunChetVavMem nichuwm) are kindled together.

Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance(NunChetMem nocham) shall be hid from mine eyes.

Joel 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Joel 2:14 Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Amos 7:3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

Amos 7:6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

Jonah 3:9 Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Jonah 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.

Jonah 4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

Zechariah 8:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: