Bible verses about "regret" | BBE

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing. ² He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters. ³ He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name. ⁴ Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort. ⁵ You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing. ⁶ Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.

¹⁰ Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

¹ For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

²⁵ I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

¹⁶ For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life. ¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

⁷ I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

¹ But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine. ² When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you. ³ For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you. ⁴ Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life. ⁵ Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west; ⁶ I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth; ⁷ Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me. ⁸ Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut. ⁹ Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true. ¹⁰ You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me. ¹¹ I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me. ¹² I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord. ¹³ From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed? ¹⁴ The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships. ¹⁵ I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King. ¹⁶ This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters; ¹⁷ Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out. ¹⁸ Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds. ¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country. ²⁰ The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself: ²¹ Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise. ²² But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel. ²³ You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes. ²⁴ You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings. ²⁵ I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind. ²⁶ Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right. ²⁷ Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word. ²⁸ Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

²⁴ For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.

¹⁸ Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds. ¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.

¹³ Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before, ¹⁴ I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

¹⁰ For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

¹³ Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,