What does the Bible say about regrets?
Never allow Satan to hurt you with regret. Sometimes he tries to make us dwell on our past sins before Christ. Worrying about old sins does nothing for you. Through repentance and putting your trust in Christ for salvation, you’re a new creation. God blots out your sins and remembers them no more. Keep your mind on Christ and continue your walk of faith. If you stumble, repent, and keep on moving. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.
Christian quotes about regret
“I have never known anyone to accept Christ’s redemption and later regret it.” Billy Graham
“When we clear away our regrets, joy replaces resentment and peace replaces conflict.” Charles Swindoll
“God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.” Matt Chandler
“God’s grace is bigger than your biggest regret.” Lecrae
“Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday’s regret and tomorrow’s worries.” — Warren W. Wiersbe
“Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.” Oswald Chambers
“Why believe the devil instead of believing God? Rise up and realize the truth about yourself – that all the past has gone, and you are one with Christ, and all your sins have been blotted out once and for ever. O let us remember that it is sin to doubt God’s Word. It is sin to allow the past, which God has dealt with, to rob us of our joy and our usefulness in the present and in the future.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Godly Regret
1. 2 Corinthians 7:10 “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.”
Forget the old and press on
2. Philippians 3:13-15 “Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.”
3. Isaiah 43:18-19 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
4. 1 Timothy 6:12 “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
5. Isaiah 65:17 “For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.”
6. John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
Confessing sins
7. 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
8. Psalm 103:12 “as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.”
9. Psalm 32:5 “Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.”
Reminders
10. Ecclesiastes 7:10 “Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
11. Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
12. 2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. “
13. Ephesians 1:7 “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.”
14. Romans 8:37 “But we have power over all these things through Jesus Who loves us so much.”
15. 1 John 4:19 “We love because God loved us first.”
16. 2. Joel 2:25 “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.”
Fix your mind on the Lord
17. Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
18. Isaiah 26:3 “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.”
Advice
19. Ephesians 6:11 “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.”
20. James 4:7 “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
21. 1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Bible examples about regret
22. Genesis 6:6-7 “And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
23. Luke 22:61-62 “And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.”
24. 1 Samuel 26:21 “Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake.”
25. 2 Corinthians 7:8 “For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.”
26. 2 Chronicles 21:20 “He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.”
27. 1 Samuel 15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night.”
28. Revelation 9:21 “And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.”
29. Jeremiah 31:19 “After my return, I felt regret; After I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”
30. Matthew 14:9 “And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.“
Bonus
Romans 8:28 “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”
