Bible Verses About Regret

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; 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.

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.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

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.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

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.

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.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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 him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;