Expiation vs. Repentance
Difference Between Expiation and Repentance
Expiation➦
The act of expiating; atonement.
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Repentance➦
Repentance is the activity of reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better. In modern times, it is generally seen as involving a commitment to personal change and the resolve to live a more responsible and humane life.
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Expiation➦
A means of expiating.
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Repentance➦
the action of repenting; sincere regret or remorse
each person who turns to God in genuine repentance and faith will be saved
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Expiation➦
An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
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Repentance➦
The act or process of repenting.
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Expiation➦
(obsolete) The act of expiating or stripping off.
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Repentance➦
Remorse or contrition for past conduct or sin.
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Expiation➦
The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation.
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Repentance➦
The condition of being penitent.
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Expiation➦
The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
Those shadowy expiations weak,The blood of bulls and goats.
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Repentance➦
A feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.
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Expiation➦
An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
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Repentance➦
The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated.
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Expiation➦
compensation for a wrong;
we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store
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Repentance➦
remorse for your past conduct
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Expiation➦
the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
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