There are two words that are absolutely necessary for you to understand if you want to become a new person: confession and repentance.

你要想成为一个新造的人，有两个词你必须领会，这两个词是：认罪和悔改。

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This practice derived from Old Testament passages that mention the use of ashes in connection with frailty or death (Genesis 18.27), sadness or mourning (Esther 4.3), and repentance (Jonah 3.6).

这种做法是源自于，旧约经文中所提到的使用炉灰与衰老或死亡(创世纪18.27)，悲伤或哀悼(以斯帖记4.3)，和忏悔(约拿书3.6)的连结。

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And I would have you believe, my sons, that the same Justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy but that by prayer and repentance it may be removed.

儿子们，但愿你们相信，公正的神明会惩罚有罪的人，但是只要他们能祈祷悔过，无论他们犯了多么深重的罪孽，都能得到宽恕。

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The defiling effect of lesser transgressions is calibrated to the sinner's intentionality and the presence or absence of repentance.

相对较轻的犯罪带来的亵渎影响,随罪人的犯罪动机,是否出席祭祀仪式和是否悔改而变化。

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Let your repentance salt my shoe leather," I said presently, " and then, as I lately sheathed my blade of anger, so sheath you my blade of love."

你的悔意只配擦我的皮鞋，我当即就说“,方才我收起愤怒之剑时，也收起了对你的爱情之剑“

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But, Ben says, it also stated that these sins could be overcome with restraint and repentance.

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Not for them the sackcloth and ashes of their fathers and repentance for crimes they did not commit.

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"Homosexual genital acts fall short of the Christian ideal and are to be met with a call to repentance and the exercise of compassion, " according to Anglican doctrine.

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