What is repentance unto life?
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience.
Scripture Proofs
Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Joel 2:12
Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
Jeremiah 31:18-19
Turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you.