repent
Speech parts
1. repent - Adjective
2. repent - Verb
Meaning
Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
Same as Reptant.
To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
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Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.
To repent is not to look downwards at my own shortcomings, but upwards at God's love, it is not to look backwards with self-reproach but forward with trustfulness, it is to see not what I have failed to be, but what by the grace of Christ I might yet become.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Marry in haste repent at leisure.
We do in haste what we repent at leisure.