Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you that today, [even] this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times."

But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you are saying." And he went out on the porch, and a rooster crowed.

Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times."

Then he began to curse and swear, [saying,] "I do not know the Man!" Immediately a rooster crowed.

And David's heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O LORD, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

I thought about my ways, And turned my feet to Your testimonies.

I made haste, and did not delay To keep Your commandments.

" I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: 'You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained bull; Restore me, and I will return, For You [are] the LORD my God.

[Is] Ephraim My dear son? [Is he] a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still; Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD.

"that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done," says the Lord GOD.' "

"Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that [were] not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.

"But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

"and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants." '

But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are saying!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.

' Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity.

And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times." So he went out and wept bitterly.

So Peter went out and wept bitterly.

For godly sorrow produces repentance [leading] to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.