Is there a limit to how often I can repent? (2024)

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Is there a limit to how often I can repent? ›

Repentance is always available, even if you've made the same mistake again. The Lord has said, “As often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses against me” (Mosiah 26:30). Be one of “His people,” and return to the Lord whenever you stray. Also, talk to your parents and your bishop.

There are two things to remember here: (1) God's mercy is indeed infinite, and (2) true repentance means forsaking your sins. On the one hand, because of the infinite Atonement of Jesus Christ, repentance is available to everyone, even those who have made the same mistakes many times.

We do not just stop passions, we exchange them. That is always the key to conquering sin. If we stop fulfilling sinful passions, we leave a void or vacuum in our life that must be filled. If it is not filled with a better, more fulfilling passion, the old lusts will return (2 Peter 2:20-22).

Jesus speaks of forgiveness beyond what anyone had ever considered before: seventy times seven! Many commentaries understand this to mean that Jesus was telling Peter that he should forgive his brother a limitless number of times.

Martin Luther famously said, “All of a Christian's life is repentance.” Repentance is not something we do to start the Christian life; repentance is a posture toward God that we adopt at conversion and maintain the rest of our lives.

Ether 12:27: "If men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble." Daily we need to repent of our weaknesses.

He doesn't put a limit on how many times you turn to him with your sincere heart, humbly seeking forgiveness. He's just glad you've returned. May we do our best to model our forgiveness after God's example.

Resistance to the known truth. Envy of a brother's spiritual good, i.e., of the increase of Divine grace in the world. Impenitence, i.e., the specific purpose of not repenting a sin.

You may have felt like your sins are too serious or that you have made the same mistake too many times. But no matter how much we have sinned, we can always repent and be forgiven. Some sins may be easier to correct than others, but Jesus Christ has provided for total forgiveness from all sins. He is eager to forgive.

Does God only forgive 77 times? ›

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?" ²²Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. "Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

Daniel 9:25 states that the 'seventy weeks' (generally interpreted as 490 years according to the day-year principle) is to begin "from the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem," which is when the Persian king Artaxerxes I, gave the decree to rebuild Jerusalem to Ezra, so the 490 years point to the ...

But in the ancient Middle East, the writers of the Hebrew Bible forbade tattooing. Per Leviticus 19:28, “You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves.” Historically, scholars have often understood this as a warning against pagan practices of mourning.

Repentance is always available, even if you've made the same mistake again. The Lord has said, “As often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses against me” (Mosiah 26:30). Be one of “His people,” and return to the Lord whenever you stray.

The short answer is no. There is not a limit to the amount of times you can rededicate or resurrender your life to Christ because you are in a continual battle between your flesh and your spirit, and this battle will not end until you are safe in God's presence.

Jesus says we should forgive someone seventy times seven in response to a question from Peter about how many times to forgive a brother who sins against him. Peter asks if forgiving seven times is appropriate, and Jesus responds “not seven times, but seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:22).

There's no direct teaching in Scripture about the frequency of confessing our sins. We should approach it first from the angle of how frequently we sin. Given that we sin each day, it would make sense that we confess our sins each day and ask for our Father's forgiveness each day.

In the first two stages we looked at conviction and confession. * We have felt the weight of our sin by seeing it as God does and confessed it to Him and others. Before we move to next stage I want to warn you of turning these stages into a checklist.