Repentance to life is a saving grace (Ac 11:18), whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sins (Ac 2:37), and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ (Joe 2:13), does with grief and hatred of his sin turn from it to God (Jer 31:18,19), with full purpose to strive after new obedience (Ps 119:59).