NT Verses that Use the Word Repent (metanoia, metanoeo, metamelomai)

The Greek Word Metanoia

3340. metanoeo, met-an-o-eh’-o; from G3326 and G3539; to think differently or afterwards, i.e. reconsider (mor. feel compunction):—repent.

Metanoia [G3341] translated as Repent

1. Mat 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:   [G3341]
2. Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:   [G3341] 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:
3. Mat 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.   [G3341]
4. Mark 1:4   John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance   [G3341] for the remission of sins.
5. 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.   [G3341]
6. Luke 3:3   And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance   [G3341] for the remission of sins;
7. Luke 3:8   Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance,   [G3341] 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.
8. Luke 5:32   I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.   [G3341]
9. 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.   [G3341]
10. Luke 24:47   And that repentance   [G3341] and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
11. Acts 5:31   Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance   [G3341] to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
12. 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   [G3341] unto life.
13. Acts 13:24   When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance   [G3341] to all the people of Israel.
14. Acts 19:4   Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance,   [G3341] saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
15. Acts 20:21   Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance   [G3341] toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
16. Acts 26:20 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.   [G3341]
17. Rom 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?   [G3341]
18. 2 Cor 7:9  Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance:   [G3341] for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
19. 2 Cor 7:10   For godly sorrow worketh repentance   [G3341] to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
20. 2 Tim 2:25   In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance   [G3341] to the acknowledging of the truth;
21. Heb 6:1   Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance   [G3341] from dead works, and of faith toward God,
22. Heb 6:6   If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance;   [G3341] seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
23. Heb 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,   [G3341] though he sought it carefully with tears.
24. 2 Pet 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.   [G3341]

Metanoeo  [G3340] Translated as Repent

1. Mat 3:2   And saying, Repent ye: [G3340] for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
2. Mat 4:17   From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: [G3340] for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3. Mat 11:20   Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented   [G3340] not:
4. Mat 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   [G3340] long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
5. Mat 12:41   The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented   [G3340] at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
6. Mark 1:15   And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye,   [G3340] and believe the gospel.
7. Mark 6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.   [G3340]
8. 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   [G3340] a great while ago repented,   [G3340] sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
9. Luke 11:32   The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented   [G3340] at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
10. Luke 13:3   I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent,   [G3340] ye shall all likewise perish.
11. Luke 13:5   I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent,   [G3340] ye shall all likewise perish.
12. Luke 15:7   I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,   [G3340] more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
13. Luke 15:10   Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.   [G3340]
14. Luke 16:30   And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.   [G3340]
15. Luke 17:3   Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent,   [G3340] forgive him.
16. 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;   [G3340] thou shalt forgive him.
17. Acts 2:38   Then Peter said unto them, Repent,   [G3340] 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.
18. Acts 3:19   Repent ye   [G3340] therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
19. Acts 8:22   Repent   [G3340] therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
20. Acts 17:30   And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:   [G3340]
21. Acts 26:20 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   [G3340] and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
22. 2 Cor 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   [G3340] not repented   [G3340] of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
23. Rev 2:5   Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent,   [G3340] 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.   [G3340]
24. Rev 2:16   Repent;   [G3340] or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
25. Rev 2:21   And I gave her space to repent   [G3340] of her fornication; and she repented   [G3340] not.
26. Rev 2:22   Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent   [G3340] of their deeds.
27. Rev 3:3   Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent.   [G3340] 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.
28. Rev 3:19   As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.   [G3340]
29. Rev 9:20   And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented   [G3340] 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:
30. Rev 9:21   Neither repented they   [G3340] of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
31. Rev 16:9   And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented   [G3340] not to give him glory.
32. Rev 16:11   And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented   [G3340] not of their deeds.

Metamelomai [G3338] Translated as Repent

1. Mat 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented,   [G3338] and went.
2. Mat 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   [G3338] not afterward, that ye might believe him.
3. Mat 27:3   Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself,   [G3338] and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4. 2 Cor 7:8   For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do   [G3338] not repent,   [G3338] though I did repent:   [G3338] for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
5. Heb 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   [G3338] not repent, [G3338] Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

Ametameletos [G278] Translated as Repent

1. Rom 11:29   For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.   [G278]
2. 2 Cor 7:10   For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of:   [G278] but the sorrow of the world worketh death.