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Renewal The return to a deeper Christian faith and life on the part of a person or a community. Renewal is found in prayer and Bible study, so that a person may become more and more like Jesus Christ (Cf. Rom 12:1,2; Col 3:5-11).
Repentance (lit., "a change of mind") A complete turning away of mind and heart from any evil and a complete turning to the way of Jesus Christ. Repentance is prompted by godly sorrow and the love of God and leads to a change of life. Repentance is necessary to conversion and salvation. Repentance is a change of character.
Key KJV Scriptures:
Romans 12:1-2; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:9-10; Titus 3:5
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
9 indexed verses · Showing 1–9. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Romans 12:1 (KJV)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:2 (KJV)
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
2 Corinthians 4:16 (KJV)
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Ephesians 4:22 (KJV)
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Ephesians 4:23 (KJV)
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Ephesians 4:24 (KJV)
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Colossians 3:9 (KJV)
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Colossians 3:10 (KJV)
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Titus 3:5 (KJV)
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;