SPLIT: Opposition: Penance & Confession

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I know there have been several threads on this forum about eating meating on Fridays, and exactly what our Friday obligation is. I understand that while it is no longer considered a mortal sin to eat meat on Fridays, we are to substitute some sort of penance if we do choose to eat meat. I’m a vegetarian, so I definitely have to do something else. I have chosen to fast on this day, eating only one meal at night, and a couple of small snacks (fruit) during the day, and no sweets at all (trust me, that is truly penance for me 😦 ) I figure this is the least I can do in honor of our Lord who gave his life so that we may live.

I’m just curious as to what others have chosen to do on this day. I have actually come to like the idea that it has not been mandated for us by the Church anymore, but left up to each one of us to decide on our own. I realize that the vast majority of present-day Catholics pay absolutely no attention to this (a vast majority of American Catholics don’t even believe in the Real Presence, which is tragic beyond words), but I’m sure a good number on this forum do. If you’re here, you’re probably here because you truly love our Lord and want to do all you can to honor him.

So tell me, what penance do you do on Fridays?

Mary
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None. Penance is unscriptural.
 
DLClark said:
None. Penance is unscriptural.
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Show me where you get this absurd idea.

PENANCE Definition Father Hardens Catholic Dictionary

1.The virtue or disposition of heart by which one repents of one’s own sins and is converted to God. Also the punishment by which one atones for sins committed, either by oneself or by others. /// 2. And finally the sacrament of penance, where confessed sins committed after baptism are absolved by a priest in the name of God. (Etym. Latin paenitentia, repentance, contrition.)

There were several instances in the 16th Century where the traditional Latin vocabulary used by St. Jerome in the Vulgate was challenged based on the grammar and vocabulary in the Greek New Testament. Most of this were minor quibbles of no great import, but some were used by prots to question Catholic teaching and practice.

One of the important challenges were the following:
  1. The translation of “metanoeo” as "paenitentiam agite"
The Greek verb “metanoeo" comes from two other Greek words: meta (change) & noos (mind). The most accurate rendering into English of the meaning of this word would be “to repent.” The implication was that at some point in **time someone **would change their mind about a past action and regret having done it. There was no simple Latin equivalent of this Greek term and so the Vulgate used the phrase "paenitentiam agite"which in Latin means "do penance.” The idea of “penance” in Latin carried the connotation of regret and sorrow for past actions but went further in that it also implied the performing of acts of reparation and mortification. By having Jesus say that his followers had to “do penance and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15) it **implied that they needed to perform acts of mortification (fasting, self-denial, wearing a hair shirt, self flagellation) or reparation (restoring loss goods, compensating victims) , as conditions for the forgiveness of sins. **

The prots in the 16th Century claimed that the word metanoeo carried no such implication and that all that was needed was a genuine sense of sorrow for sin. Certain radicals – typified today by some Dispensationalists – even stated that sorrow for sin was not needed. They claimed that repentance merely meant that you intellectually changed the way you thought from that moment forwards without any reference to past actions. Those were “covered over” by Christ and hence forgotten by God.

Technically, the prots were right. The words “metaneo” and "paenitentiam agite"are not exact equivalents. But they forgot that the NT uses Greek words in a distinctly Hebraic way and that they must be understood in the context of a Hebrew idiom. The word for “repent” in OT Hebrew was "nacham" which has the following connotations according to Strong’s Concordance:

Nacham - to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted

a) (Niphal)
  1. to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion
  2. to be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent
  3. to comfort oneself, be comforted
  4. to comfort oneself, ease oneself
b) (Piel) to comfort, console

c) (Pual) to be comforted, be consoled

d) (Hithpael)
  1. to be sorry, have compassion
  2. to rue, repent of
  3. to comfort oneself, be comforted
  4. to ease oneself
As you can see, **the OT concept included sorrow, grief , compassion, and acts to comfort others and be comforted oneself. Repentance was not merely a passive act of regret nor merely a change of mind. As such, St. Jerome’s choice of "do penance"had the wider context of the OT meaning in mind and we need to appreciate that.
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In later rabbinical theology, the term “teshuvah” (turning) would be used for repentance. It would be defined by the Talmud as a turning towards God and a turning away from one’s sins. It also meant a turning towards one’s sins as something to contemplate and regret: the opposite of moral denial. St. Thomas Aquinas was aware of this rabbinical teaching and in his Summa Theologiae he has the turnings towards God and towards/away from sin as two of the four results of the grace of justification. (The other two were the forgiveness of sin and the infusion of the new life of grace.)

The Rabbis were not heavily into acts of mortification. many of these practices were unique to Christians who wished to imitate their Lord in his suffering for mankind on the cross. Nevertheless, repentance in “sack cloth and ashes” was a Jewish practice advocated in both Testaments(e.g., Daniel 9:3, Matthew 11:21Matt 11:21 they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. , Luke 10:13).
If one steals from someone, or damages another’s property willfully or neglectfully, is it enough to have true sorrow and resolve not to do it again? Or is something more required such as restitution!
In summary, the issue here was whether Greek grammar or the Biblical idiom should guide the translation. The prots opted for the former while St. Jerome and the Catholic Tradition opted for the latter.

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Some Verses in the Douay Rheims not translated in other sources this way.

But unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3
And God indeed having winked at times of this ignorance, now delcareth unto men, that all should everywhere do penance. Because he hath appointed a day, wherein he will judge the world in equity, by by man whom he hath appointed; giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead Acts 17:30-31
Therefore will I judge everyman according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your enequities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin, Ezechial 18:30
And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the desert of judea. And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mat 3:12
But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity. Be mindufl, therefore, from whence thou art fallen: and do penance and do the first works. Or else I come to thee, and will move thy candelstick out of its place, except thou do penance Rev 2:4-5
But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat, and to commit fornication: So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaites. In like manner**, do penance**: if not, I come to thee quickl, and will fight against them with the sword of mouth. Rev 2:14-16
Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready to die. For I find not thy works full before my God. Have in mind therefore in what manner thou has received and heard: and observe, and do penance. Rev 3:2-3
 
Very true - God’s children want the truth, have a right to the truth! The truth has its own convincing power. And I think God’s children know the truth when they hear it.
I wonder on penances. When I do palanca for people on cursillo weekends, I will do things like sleep on the floor for a night, or go without heat in my car during a cold drive ot work, do service to others as a volunterr, put a rock in my sock for three days, etc.
Do you think these things would be worthy of penance status?
 
DLClark said:
Where in the Bible does it say to us that we must do penance or even do it on a Friday?

Chapter and verse please?
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Sparticus 9:17 <—Old Testament

Mr. McStopheles 20:26. <—New Testament
 
DLClark said:
Where in the Bible does it say to us that we must do penance or even do it on a Friday?

Chapter and verse please?
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The phrase “do penance” has been retranslated as “repent” in modern translations of the Bible, so if you do a word study on “repent” using your Strong’s Concordance or else by doing a word search in any on-line Bible, you’ll be able to see the instances where it is commanded, and the context for each instance.

Penance is also prefigured in the Old Testament in several places, including the 40 days of penance done by the people of Nineveh in the Book of Jonah, and Elijah’s 40 days in the wilderness without food or water, on the ascent to Mount Carmel, in the Book of Kings - as well, there is Noah’s forty days and nights of rain, which prefigured Baptism. (I Peter 3:20-21).
 
DLClark said:
Where in the Bible does it say to us that we must do penance or even do it on a Friday?

Chapter and verse please?
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One should do pennanc(es) everyday, what is required by the Church and one’s own self mortification. Catholics acknowledge in hope this will lesson the “time” it will take for us to be purged of our attachment to siin after we die. My Protestant friends acknowledge the more suffering we do here, the more we can be like Christ. I must decrease so He may increase. By denying us ourselves Jesus will give us more of Him.

We should do extra pennance on Friday for the same reason we go to church on Sunday. Jesus Ressurected on a Sunday, therefore, every Sunday we commemorate that by going to church. Because Jesus died on a Friday, it is a day of mourning, and we acknowledge that by doing a form of self-giving.
 
DLClark said:
Where in the Bible does it say to us that we must do penance or even do it on a Friday?

Chapter and verse please?
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Of course, as you know, there is no specific verse in the Bible that says “Do penance on Fridays.” It is a tradition of the Church which you, as a Protestant, do not accept, and I understand that.

HOWEVER, it comes down to understanding the meaning of suffering and specifically, Christ’s suffering and joining our own personal suffering to his. Paul says in Col 1:24: “I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church.” Do you know what that means? As Catholics, we know exactly what that means. That is talking about joining your suffering to the suffering of Christ. Of course, Christ’s sacrifice was full and complete. But Christ loves us so much that he allows us to be a part of his redemptive suffering. Do you see that Paul says: "I rejoice in my suffering for you. . . for the sake of his body, which is the church" Our suffering can be part of the redemption of the world. Jesus Christ actually allows us to do that. We can suffer for others and actually help deliver them from spiritual death through joining our suffering with that of Jesus Christ.

The Catholic Church, above every other Church in the world, Christian or not, truly understands suffering and the great redemptive meaning of it. That is why we have the suffering Christ on the Cross in a prominent place in our Churches and hopefully in our homes. Paul said in II Cor 12:9-10: "
And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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When I look at the suffering Christ on the Cross, I am reminded that when Christ was physically at his weakest, he was spiritually at his strongest, because it was at that point that he saved the entire world. And so it is in our own lives.

So the Church has a tradition of marking each Friday, the day our Lord died, with specifically joining our sufferings to him, as a memorial of what happened on that day of the week, and to always keep it in remembrance.

Does that make sense?

BTW, I love all the posts here. They are absolutely beautiful.

Mary
 
DLClark said:
Where in the Bible does it say to us that we must do penance…?

Chapter and verse please?
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But unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3
And God indeed having winked at times of this ignorance, now delcareth unto men, that all should everywhere do penance. Because he hath appointed a day, wherein he will judge the world in equity, by by man whom he hath appointed; giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead Acts 17:30-31
Therefore will I judge everyman according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your enequities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin, Ezechial 18:30
And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the desert of judea. And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mat 3:12
But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity. Be mindufl, therefore, from whence thou art fallen: and do penance and do the first works. Or else I come to thee, and will move thy candelstick out of its place, except thou do penance Rev 2:4-5
But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat, and to commit fornication: So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaites. In like manner**, do penance**: if not, I come to thee quickl, and will fight against them with the sword of mouth. Rev 2:14-16
Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready to die. For I find not thy works full before my God. Have in mind therefore in what manner thou has received and heard: and observe, and do penance. Rev 3:2-3
 
DL Clarke - what exactly do you think Paul is referring to when he says ‘I pummel my body and subdue it’ if not penance?
 
DLClark said:
**1) **"By having Jesus say that his followers had to “do penance and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15) it **implied that they needed to perform acts of mortification …]
, as conditions for the forgiveness of sins. "

2**) My first thought is that the thief on the cross did not do acts of mortification to have his sins forgiven. He just believed in Christ and Christ said he was saved.

3) Then my thought what about those who quadripelgic? How can they do acts of mortification?

4) How well does one have to perform those acts of mortificaion before their sins are forgiven?

5) How come the Apostles did not perform acts of moritification(there is not record of them doing so) but their names were sritten in Lambs book of life meaning they were saved?

6) How come there is not instruction on this is the epistles or any reecord of anyone doing such acts recorded in the Bible?

7) then and formost. How come it is the Bible already say that a elievers sins are forgiven and not because of amy mortification they have done?

8) Did you know there is not a single refernce in the Bible to “mortal and venial sins”? Don’t take my word for it. Check it out yourself.

9) Did you know that from a Scriptural perspective. all sins cause spiritual death, Romans 6:23 (death here is separation from God not physical death). Would please read this passage.1 Cor 6:9-11
*Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. *NASU

10) These Corinthians were guilty of moral sins, weren’t they?

11) Yet what words are used to describe their present speiritual standing as a result of believing in Christ (washed. sanctified, justified)?

12) dod you know that Scripture says we are justified and made right with God not by workd but solely by faith in Christ (Romans 3:26, 28; 4:3; 5:1).
Let me answer some of your questions and misunderstandings as briefly as possible so that I can try to get them all in one post (and before my baby starts to get fussy, lol.)
  1. Re-read my earlier posts to see what was said (in scripture) about penance, I posted on both the first and second pages to your questions.
  2. The thief of the cross accepted his suffering (unlike the other thief who complained), had a conversion and asked for forgiveness right before his death by crucifixion. Accepting crosses in your life with patience and faith is a form of penance or mortification.
  3. They can do many types of penance, such as fasting for example.
  4. This is a misconception of the forgiveness of sins, but to answer the question anyway, a person just has to be genuine to have satisfactory acts of penance.
  5. The apostles did in fact do much in the way of mortification, pehaps you would do well in re-reading the New Testament? There have been people in this very thread who have at least posted the example of St. Paul who talks about pummeling his body. Do you mean to tell me that the Apostles never fasted?
  6. See #5 & #12.
  7. See #5 & #12.
  8. (1 John 5:16-17) 16 He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask, and life shall be given to him, who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death: for that I say not that any man ask. 17 All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.
  9. That passage was listing serious/grave/deadly/mortal sins…notice how he said “some of you…” Only mortal sin is the death of the soul. (Also see #8.)
  10. I think you meant “mortal”, right? If so, yes, to the some of them he was referring to. (See #9.)
  11. Indeed, but what is your point? Of course when a sinner repents and changes his ways and is baptized he is forgiven his sins. Christianity 101.
  12. Not by work but soley by faith? St. James says that you are saved by work and not by faith alone. James 2: 14-26 says:
    14 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? 15 And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food: 16 And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit? 17 **So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. **…]19 Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? **
    21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God. 24 Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only? 25 And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way?
    26 For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also     faith without works is dead    .
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adstrinity said:
Sparticus 9:17 <—Old Testament

Mr. McStopheles 20:26. <—New Testament
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These are not from the Bible. The Bible does not tell us to do penance or even shows examples of people doing penance as you claim. THow come there are not example of Peter, Paul or even other Apostles doing penance if it important?
 
Provide for one command in the Epistles for us to do penance. Show me one verse where is says that the Apostles ever practiced penance.

If we are mortify ourselves, now mortified do we have to be to have our sins forgiven? Where Does the Bible says that mortification removes our sins?
 
DLClark said:
These are not from the Bible. The Bible does not tell us to do penance or even shows examples of people doing penance as you claim. THow come there are not example of Peter, Paul or even other Apostles doing penance if it important?
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DLClark, you have dodge the answers all throughout this thread. If you honestly want answers, please read posts 6, 7, 8, 19, 22, 25, 26, and 31.

Also, here are some more scripture verses for you to read: Matt. 6:16-18, Mark 2:18-20, Acts 13:2-3, James 4:8-10.

*Actually, I will post these verses here for you to make it easier on you:

Matt 6: 16 And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee.

Mark 2: 18 And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast; and they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast? 19 And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them; and then they shall fast in those days.

Acts 13: 2 And as they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work whereunto I have taken them. 3 Then they, fasting and praying, and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.

James 4: 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. 10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Now you have SEVERAL Scriptural verses, both new and old testament, as well as the writings of the earliest Christians ALL saying to do penance. What have ye to say now??
 
DLClark said:
These are not from the Bible. The Bible does not tell us to do penance or even shows examples of people doing penance as you claim. THow come there are not example of Peter, Paul or even other Apostles doing penance if it important?
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Of course the Bible tells us to do penance! Christ said to His apostles ‘WHEN you fast …’ . He never said ‘IF’ you fast. His turn of phrase means fasting is not optional, but a necessity. My mother says ‘when you clean your room’, I know that’s an order and not a suggestion.

And Paul understood this. Acts 9:9, after the Road to Damascus apparition, it says of Paul ‘For three days he was unable to see, AND HE NEITHER ATE NOR DRANK’. A clear-as-bells example of the importance of fasting.

Acts 13:2 - 'While they were worshipping the Lord AND FASTING, the Holy Spirit said ‘Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul …’ ’

So the discipline of fasting (combined with prayer, as Jesus said the two must be combined to be more powerful) enabled them to discern the Holy Spirit’s message in regard to Barnabas and Paul.

For someone who claims to know scripture, there’s an awful lot you’ve missed, it seems.
 
E.E.N.S said:
DLClark, you have dodge the answers all throughout this thread. If you honestly want answers, please read posts 6, 7, 8, 19, 22, 25, 26, and 31.

Also, here are some more scripture verses for you to read: Matt. 6:16-18, Mark 2:18-20, Acts 13:2-3, James 4:8-10.

*Actually, I will post these verses here for you to make it easier on you:

Matt 6: 16 And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee.

Mark 2: 18 And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast; and they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast? 19 And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them; and then they shall fast in those days.

Acts 13: 2 And as they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work whereunto I have taken them. 3 Then they, fasting and praying, and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.

James 4: 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. 10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Now you have SEVERAL Scriptural verses, both new and old testament, as well as the writings of the earliest Christians ALL saying to do penance. What have ye to say now??
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My question still stands. Show me a verse that says we must do penance in order to have our sins forgiven? Is John 3:16 correct in that when a person believed in Christ, he will never perish but have eternal life?
 
DLClark said:
My question still stands. Show me a verse that says we must do penance in order to have our sins forgiven? Is John 3:16 correct in that when a person believed in Christ, he will never perish but have eternal life?
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Did you even READ the scripture examples given to you? :confused:

Ok - here, let’s make this easier.

Take every one of the examples given to you by E.E.N.S - and show is EXACTLY why you think they do not speak of penance.

If you can’t do that, or refuse to do that, then I think this conversation is done with you, because you flatly refuse to knowledge the examples given to you that prove you are wrong.

~Liza
 
DLClark said:
Provide for one command in the Epistles for us to do penance. Show me one verse where is says that the Apostles ever practiced penance.
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Wrong!

Matthew 3
2 And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 3
8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.
Mattthew 3
11 I indeed baptize you in the water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.
Matthew 4
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 11
20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his miracles, for that they had not done penance.
Matthew 11
21 Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.
Mark 6
12 And going forth they preached that men should do penance:
Luke 3
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance; and do not begin to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Luke 5
32 I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
Luke 10
13 Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida. For if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the mighty works that have been wrought in you, they would have done penance long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 13
3 No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.
Luke 13
5 No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.
Luke 15
7 I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance.
Luke 15
10 So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance.
Luke 16
30 But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance.
Luke 17
3 Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him.
Acts Of Apostles 2 :38 But Peter said to them: Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts Of Apostles 8 :22 Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness; and pray to God, that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.
Acts Of Apostles 17 :30 And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men, that all should everywhere do penance.
Acts Of Apostles 20:21 Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts Of Apostles 26:20 But to them first that are at Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they should do penance, and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.
 
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