Repentance is a gift of God wherein a person, by the power of the Holy Spirit, is made sensible of the great evil of sin, humbles himself and with godly sorrow and self-abhorrence turns to God and from sin; setting his heart to walk before God, living now for His pleasure.
Ezekiel 18:30-31; Zechariah 12:10; Isaiah 55:7; Luke 24:47; Acts 11:18