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#### Confession of Faith
##### Chapter 15: Of Repentance unto Life
By it, a sinner, out of the sight and sense not only of the danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature, and righteous law of God; and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for, and hates his sins, as to turn from them all unto God,[^fnref:wcf1] purposing and endeavoring to walk with him in all the ways of his commandments.[^fnref:wcf2]
[^fnref:wcf1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Ezekiel 18:30-31</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p26018030.01-1">“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord <span class="small-caps">God</span>. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?</p> </div><h5>Ezekiel 36:31</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p26036031.01-2">Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.</p> </div><h5>Isaiah 30:22</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p23030022.01-3">Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”</p> </div><h5>Psalm 51:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19051004.01-4">Against you, you only, have I sinned<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and done what is evil in your sight,<br /> so that you may be justified in your words<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and blameless in your judgment.</p> </div> </div><h5>Jeremiah 31:18-19</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p24031018.01-5">I have heard Ephraim grieving,<br /> ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>like an untrained calf;<br /> bring me back that I may be restored,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for you are the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> my God.<br /> For after I had turned away, I relented,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh;<br /> I was ashamed, and I was confounded,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’</p> </div> </div><h5>Joel 2:12-13</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p29002012.05-6">“Yet even now,” declares the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>“return to me with all your heart,<br /> with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and rend your hearts and not your garments.”<br /> Return to the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for he is gracious and merciful,<br /> slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and he relents over disaster.</p> </div> </div><h5>Amos 5:15</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p30005015.01-7">Hate evil, and love good,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and establish justice in the gate;<br /> it may be that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of hosts,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 119:128</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19119128.01-8">Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>I hate every false way.</p> </div> </div><h5>2 Corinthians 7:11</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p47007011.01-9">For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wcf2]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 119:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19119006.01-1">Then I shall not be put to shame,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 119:59</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19119059.01-2">When I think on my ways,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>I turn my feet to your testimonies;</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 119:106</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19119106.01-3">I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>to keep your righteous rules.</p> </div> </div><h5>Luke 1:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p42001006.01-4">And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.</p> </div><h5>2 Kings 23:25</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p12023025.01-5">Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>