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Repentance as a turning

The Hebrew is 'turn' and the Greek is 'change your mind.' Neither means grovel. Eight passages on what repentance is, what it costs, and what it is worth.

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  1. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

    The Hebrew shuv, to turn or return, sets the whole frame. God's stated preference is stated as a question, which is more disarming than a command.

    Ezekiel 18:21–23