Repentance Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What did Jesus say unless we do, we shall all likewise perish?
- A. Repent ✓
- B. Believe
- C. Be baptized
- D. Keep the law
Answer: Repent
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Q2.What did Peter tell the people to do on the day of Pentecost?
- A. Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins ✓
- B. Keep the law
- C. Offer sacrifices
- D. Wait for the Messiah
Answer: Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, 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.
Q3.What does 2 Chronicles 7:14 say the people must do for God to hear from heaven?
- A. Humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways ✓
- B. Build a temple
- C. Offer more sacrifices
- D. Fast for forty days
Answer: Humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Q4.What did the prodigal son say when he came to himself?
- A. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee ✓
- B. I will stay in the far country
- C. I will find another master
- D. I will hide my sin
Answer: I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee
And when he came to himself, he said… I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Q5.What is godly sorrow said to work?
- A. Repentance to salvation not to be repented of ✓
- B. More sin
- C. Pride
- D. Despair
Answer: Repentance to salvation not to be repented of
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Q6.What did John the Baptist preach?
- A. Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand ✓
- B. Keep the law perfectly
- C. Build more synagogues
- D. Obey Caesar
Answer: Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Q7.What does Ezekiel 18:21 say about the wicked man who turns from his sins?
- A. He shall surely live, he shall not die ✓
- B. He is still condemned
- C. His past sins remain
- D. He must be punished
Answer: He shall surely live, he shall not die
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Q8.What does heaven do over one sinner that repenteth?
- A. There is joy in the presence of the angels of God ✓
- B. Nothing
- C. Judgment
- D. Silence
Answer: There is joy in the presence of the angels of God
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Q9.What did Jesus tell the church at Ephesus to do?
- A. Repent, and do the first works ✓
- B. Build a bigger church
- C. Hire more leaders
- D. Write more books
Answer: Repent, and do the first works
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, 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.
Q10.What did the men of Nineveh do at Jonah's preaching?
- A. They repented at the preaching of Jonas ✓
- B. They ignored him
- C. They killed him
- D. They drove him out
Answer: They repented at the preaching of Jonas
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas.