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Sentence Examples With the devil given the chance to inhabit a body and repent, the mood is strictly Clerkenwell cabaret. Wonder if Janet will repent for her theft, or get caught further and further in a web of deceit. It may include feelings of guilt or profanation, at times engendering a twinge-or surge-of regret, an impulse to repent. For the record, it was the Tories who started this Gadarene stampede, although they at least have the grace to repent of it now. The Lords and Commons repent, but the clergy remain impenitent, are exposed, and the malefactors brought to the scaffold. The only way that can happen is if all of the girls admit and repent their sins. You must repent of any callous attitude to the right use of the means God has purposed to accomplish his will. But it is never enough when we repent ourselves, the only way to be effectively punished is from an outside source. Although He had nothing to repent of, Jesus Christ was baptized as an example for those who truly follow Him. On a more domestic note, the old refrain, marry in haste, repent at leisure strikes a chord. The criminal subculture was completely destroyed and the prisoner was thrown back on his own conscience to feel guilt, repent, and reform. When they are alone, the Old Man pleads with Faustus to repent and be washed by the blood of the Savior, Christ. They think human eloquence and argument can persuade unbelievers to repent and believe. Even his defiant courage is an in-character refusal to repent or seek redemption. God in His infinite mercy gave us the entire month of Elul to repent, but we failed to take advantage of it. If, because of the disfellowship that happens, the person finally does humbly repent, then it will be our joy to welcome that person back. The preacher told him that a man had to believe that Christ was this sacrifice for his sins, and to repent and ask God to save his soul. He saw a great crisis looming and announced judgement and the opportunity to repent. While they await the arrival of the man's confessor, a local Dominican friar, the brothers encourage him to acknowledge and repent for his sins. Against all this, Montanism called the Church to tighten the reigns and repent, for the kingdom of God was now finally at hand. Show More Sentences I now repent of all that is past and ask for your forgiveness for all my sins. The Pharisees and hypocrites in the British press should repent their calumnies. He then preached against their pantheistic idolatries and urged them to repent. The Holy Synod urged all priests and parishioners to repent and come back to the unity of the canonic church. Everyone is a sinner and God will of course forgive those who truly repent. They say God could have forgiven me, let me repent and brought me back into the fold of the seraphim, yet He chose not to. Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He should repent and exorcise the institutional bias of his department. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. Do not harden your hearts against the Holy Spirit to the point when you can't hear him and will never believe in Jesus or repent. To hypocrites: so that recognizing themselves in these verses, repent, get upset, beg forgiveness and get back into law. But there is a catch: Those characters must either repent or come to a bad end. Now, you must repent for your ungratefulness and knock strongly upon the door of the seventh chamber, in order for the Gods to open it for you. This summons to repent, to be converted, is addressed to everyone, without distinction but with a sense of urgency. As in the scripture, the innocent Job must repent in order to be saved. He shows excessive regret and wants to repent by embracing death. For the love of God, Allah, Yahweh and the winds willing repent your sins! But I say, says the Lord, there shall come a great wrathful time of God upon them, that they learn to repent and turn from their wicked way. The hand of the Lord will lift up any nation, tribe or people that will repent and turn to Him. To repent, in effect, is not only to be sorry, it is also, and more profoundly, to turn back to God. Show More Sentences But in fact, in many cases they did not repent from the heart and their walls of sins have not been torn down yet. Then will they repent of the thoughts which they secretly harbored in their hearts. The poor gullible suckers who bite this diabolical fishhook always bitterly repent afterward. And Russia itself may come to repent if it encourages a rising China to behave aggressively abroad. God of Peace, be with us now as we repent of our violence and hear your word of peace. Except for those who repent before they fall into your power: in that case, know that Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. He wants to give her the opportunity to repent and tells her not to sin again. If you pray and repent, you might be able to feel refreshed for a day or so. Somebody has to pray for them with tears and repent and fast on behalf of those children. What can we learn from one another about what it means to repent of actions taken in the name of our churches? All need to repent for the eccelsial communion that has been painfully wounded during the past thousand years and beyond. I hope you will realize that it is such a precious thing that you can realize your faults and you have a chance to realize your sins and repent. And if he live until his last day, scarcely then may he shrive himself or then remember his sins, or repent of them, because of the grievous malady about to cause his death. At any rate, my dear hearers, if you have not with your whole hearts loved and worshiped God, repent over it, and pray the Holy Ghost to make you spiritual. Looking back at our own past sin, if it was objectively a felix culpa, one has always primarily to repent of it, and this forbids our considering it as a felix culpa. To those who repent and hope for forgiveness, the display of Francis's stigmata offers the promise of death transcended, of resurrection and everlasting life. Jesus' invitation spoken from outside their doors is a request for fellowship with any individual, who will repent of and overcome the spiritual lukewarmness of their lives. Although John is most severe when he is warning the Pharisees and Sadducees, he calls all to repent, and when they are baptized in the Jordan, to confess their sins. But rather than hiding away in a dark monastery to repent, Cardinal Law is instead an exalted member of Vatican inner circles. Maybe it's not too much to say that our delight also makes us repent of the ways we fail to share our bountiful and abundant food when many are starving. Show More Sentences If they repent for what they've done, they are forgiven, no harm, no foul. Even a hardened criminal may repent if given a second chance. I have been patient with it to repent of all her actions against My will. The Church used Mary Magdalene's biblical history of being a reformed harlot to encourage prostitutes to repent and mend their ways. If you are really interested in using this HGH supplement then you need to follow the suggestions and take ample precautions so that you need not repent later on. Lead me to confess all my sins before You as long as there is time, to truly repent guided by Your Holy Spirit, to love my enemies, to use money for Your sake, and not to seek high position and power. Prokofiev and Khachaturian both had to repent grovellingly, as did Dmitri Shostakovich, similarly arraigned for composing worthwhile music. Those who have been profligate and do not repent will come to a bad end. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. If you repent, perhaps you can live into the new age. Investigating signs and ads, such as repent and Sin No More! The Court of Appeal said that all allegations made against 'Ali Hussain Sibat had to be verified, and that if he had really committed the crime he should be asked to repent. In this line of thought, we can say that paradise will be restored only when men and women repent from their self centeredness and become more God centered. Indeed, saintliness can be its own sin, in which case we must learn to repent the private little nests we have made for ourselves in the name of the spiritual life. Efforts had been stepped up to persuade those who had committed offences constituting the crime of genocide to confess, ask forgiveness and repent, before being found guilty by the courts. We repent of our old way of living in sin and disobedience. You who claim to repent, stand and show yourself approved unto God, unto holiness, unto prayer, unto righteousness, unto the ways of God, unto the only right way of the Lord. It will confess all its sins, and will repent. Nevertheless, you must know that I do not repent me those dallyings in enchanted fields. In light of this, why shouldn't we repent of our incestophobia and dogophobia? Show More Sentences If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. If we are reprobate, what is going to happen if we do not repent? Mommy, before I die, will you not give me the joy of seeing you repent? But if they have a heart toward the things of this earth, they will not repent and will go after their own way and I will be a wrathful judge toward them and their ways. I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me. People are not on their own able even to fully repent of their sin or prepare themselves to repent because of their sinfulness. Those, who presently scoff at Me, will come back to Me to repent, and My compassion will purify them, but woe betide the one who refuses to submit to My Law of Love, he will be annihilated. I'll just take it easy, and enjoy the world for a while longer and when I see end time is right at hand I will repent and become diligent to the end. Later, Roger exhumed his body from his grave in Troia cathedral and threw it in a ditch, only to repent subsequently and rebury him decently. If they would now repent and change their ways, and stand up against a sinful, unrepentant president, they would then be spared much of the coming judgment. If you are excommunicated, then for the excommunication to be lifted, you need to publicly repent, and reject those errors which you used to adhere to. This is, in other words, a severe stricture in which God warned that He would punish those who do not repent from following the doctrine of Balaam, even if they were believers. We believe that all persons, though in the possession of the experience of regeneration and entire sanctification, may fall from grace and apostatize and, unless they repent of their sins, be hopelessly and eternally lost. Juan and Alfonso escaped abroad, Guillen was tried but given the chance to repent. Presented with a national calamity that also constituted a political opportunity, nothing stood between them and all the mistakes that haste can make for their children's children to repent at leisure. In parts of the world which govern with sharia law, the punishment for theft is amputation of the right hand if the thief does not repent. Therefore I call unto thee, repent before me. Humble thyselves. Humble thyselves before me that I may forgive thy sin. It is time already for you to repent of your errors, for you to initiate a battle against human materialism, which is the death and darkness for the spirit. Also, before you immerse yourself into the water, you should repent of all deeds and words that are not appropriate to have a clean heart before God. The word pentimento derives from the Italian pentirsi meaning to repent. Show More Sentences If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. He demanded that slaveowners repent and start the process of emancipation. I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. Examples from Classical Literature As to repenting of my injustices, I've done no injustice and I repent of nothing. We have all so much reason to abase ourselves, and repent in dust and ashes! The alderman saw no reason to repent his decision, hastily as it had been made. They bid those who repent put on sackcloth, and cover themselves with ashes. Appeal to the higher powers if you dare, and I'll make you repent it, you usurer! If we have fallen into disgrace by sin, we should repent and lead a better life. Earnestly did she exhort him to repent with Peter, and to be more constant in his profession. Cambon soon had reason to repent of that event, for he became one of those most violently attacked by the Thermidorian reaction. It's sent as a warning to repent you of your sins, and it's howling because it hates to go back. Since that, other things have come to our knowledge to make us repent our lenity. The priests want Paris to repent and do penitence for its liberative work of truth and justice. I only proposed to send a truant damsel to the Convent to repent of MY faults, that was all! In a fury, she said that he was too malapert to give her such answer, and affirmed that both he and they should repent it. A reprobate may be sorry for his sins, he may repent and lead a good life. He gave cain a long lifetime in which to repent of his sins. I would not take my folio paper for this epistle, and now I repent it. It means, jilt Miss Nicotine in haste, and repent at leisure. Don't let me ever see you nowheres within forty mile of London, or you'll repent it. Yet I knew all the time, if I yielded now, I should not the less be made to repent, some day, of my former rebellion. Do, governor, do, you'll never repent it, and what a help it would be to some of the poor fellows in our rank if they saw you do without it. Show More Sentences He stood about, restless and uneasy, for a while, glancing at the door, every now and then, hoping she would repent and come to find him. They seem very comfortable as they are, and if she were to take any pains to marry him, she would probably repent it. He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not repent. We resolved that this discriminating company should not repent its choice. If you don't put down that gun in double quick time, you'll repent it. As unbelievers consider themselves faultless and sinless, they do not feel the need to repent. I hope that sigh is from the heart, and that you repent of ever having been the occasion of discomfort to your excellent benefactress. He pleaded with them to repent and turn from their wrongful course. Yet true it is also that I repent me thereof, and ask thy pardon. But after a night of cool reflection they began to repent of their haste. Probably I should have told the whole story to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me. These words were followed by a general murmur, and it was evident that several of the members were discussing the propriety of making the general repent of his rashness. I've known what it is in my life to repent and feel it's too late. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of repent? Words that rhyme with repent What is the past tense of repent? What is the adverb for repent? What is the adjective for repent? What is the noun for repent? Translations for repent Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words repens repels repelling repeller repellents repellently Repent repentance repentant repentantly repented repenting 6-letter Words Starting With r re rep repe repen