False teachers that teach something different than Christ’s repentance as a turning away from sin to God (Acts 3:26,19), are arrogant, conceited, and lack understanding. Repentance, understood as a turning away from sin, was taught alongside faith, which Christ defined as a “trustful belief” (Mark 1:14-15)

If someone spreads false teachings[a] and does not agree with sound words (that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

Some people may contradict our teaching, but these are the wholesome teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. These teachings promote a godly life. 4 Anyone who teaches something different is arrogant and lacks understanding. Such a person has an unhealthy desire to quibble over the meaning of words. This stirs up arguments ending in jealousy, division, slander, and evil suspicions.

— 1 Timothy 6:3-4 NET / NLT (a. tn Grk “teaches other doctrines,” (different from apostolic teaching, cf. 1 Tim 1:3).)

When false teachers teach falsehoods, like deceptive assent only versions of the Gospel, they either purposefully, or inadvertently lead their congregations into destruction. Once you identify these wolves, flee from them. Repentance and faith go hand in hand.

The gospel can be summarized in different ways. Sometimes faith alone is named as the one thing necessary for salvation (see John 3:16; Acts 16:31; Rom. 10:9; Eph. 2:8–9), other times repentance alone is named (Luke 24:47; Acts 3:19; 5:31; 17:30; 2 Cor. 7:10), and sometimes both are named (Acts 20:21). Genuine faith always involves repentance, and vice versa.

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Because faith involves repentance and repentance involves faith, the Bible in some places speaks of forgiveness as depending on faith (Acts 10:43; 13:38-39), in others as depending on repentance (Luke 24:47; Acts 3:19,26).

— The AMG Concise Bible Dictionary has defined the word Repentance very accurately while remaining readable, and non-technical.



The term metanoéō (μετανοέω) means “feel remorse, repent, be converted in a (religio-)ethical sense,” while metánoia (μετάνοια) means “repentance, turning about, conversion” (Bauer et al. 567–568). These definitions are drawn from the world’s most authoritative Greek lexicon available.