“RETURN” and “TURN” redirect here.
Repentance is a change of course…from sin to righteousness, from living for self to living for Him.
Repentance is not a once-and-done event. We are to turn to the Lord and live thereafter a lifestyle of repentance.
An attitude of repentance should be renewed daily.
- REPENT: Strong’s Concordance: 3340 metanoeô; from 3326 and 3539; to change one’s mind or purpose:–repent(26), repented(5), repents(3)
- REPENT – Rev 2:5, 16, 21, 22; 3:3, 19
- RETURN – Is 31:6; Jer 4:1; Joel 2:12-13; Zech 1:1-6; Mal 3:7
- REPENT and RETURN – Luke 17:4; Act 3:19
- TURN – Act 9:35; 11:21; 2 Cor 3:16; Lev 26:22-24; 2 Chr 15:4; 36:13; Ps 22:27; Is 45:22
- Related words: repentance and forgiveness, as in repentance toward God brings forgiveness from God.