So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.

On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!"

Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

I announced to those at Damascus and at Jerusalem in the first instance, then all over the land of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they were to repent and turn to God by acting up to their repentance.

but I am glad now ??not glad that you were pained but glad that your pain induced you to repent. For you were pained as God meant you to be pained, and so you got no harm from what I did;

You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.

I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual vice.

blaspheming the God of heaven for their pains and their ulcers, but refusing to repent of their doings.