Not exact matches
After repentance, faith and baptism we have died for the
sin, and we are in Christ.
Now chastened and somewhat more aware of the transpolitical nature of ordination, I am learning belatedly (out of the countercultural tradition from Polycarp to Menno Simons) some measure of political
repentance, mostly in the form of silence,
after sinning much politically.
Perhaps
after the flaming up of the contrition of
repentance, if this turns into emptiness, he had a conviction, at least so he believed, that there is a mercy that forgives
sins.
(Their is One Salvation and
after that
repentance for
sin.
Perhaps one of the most poignant instances of
repentance comes
after David acknowledges his
sin of adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, Uriah.
Of course, we know from Jewish history that this
repentance did not last long, for very soon
after Jesus began his ministry, many of the Jews reverted back to their old ways of living, and ended up rejecting Christ as the Messiah, and this led them deeper and deeper into
sin, until in A.D. 70 they did experience the negative consequences of
sin, and the nation of Israel was destroyed.
After all means are exhausted to bring the
sinning partner to
repentance, the Bible permits release for the faithful partner through divorce (Matt.