Sentence examples similar to be penitent for from inspiring English sources
" (Luke 13:5) " (Luke 13:5) Be penitent as that is needed, but know that you can not barter for or pay for your soul's salvation or for His grace.
"We need to be penitent".
The prisoner was supposed to be penitent.
If he had learned to be penitent, it didn't show.
This contradicted the expectation that "properly feminine" women should be penitent and emotional in such a situation.
-- try to make it right (be penitent yourself), and forgive the repentant.
The normally brassy Mr. Rangel was penitent as he apologized "for putting you in this awkward position today," before recalling a day in Korea 60 years ago "in sub-zero weather," when "I was wounded and had no thought that I would be able to survive".
"If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves.
The Federal Council of Churches issued a statement in 1946 opposing America's decision to drop the Atomic bomb, proclaiming that "As American Christians, we are deeply penitent for the irresponsible use already made of the atomic bomb".
I wanted to be the penitent.
