Repent for...? Repent of...?

According to my dictionary, to repent for something is to be remorsful or sorry about something you've done or not done. You can confess to someone but I don't know if you can be sorry to someone.

To repent in something is to have a change of heart about it, so that something you once believed was correct, you now believe is incorr

Actually, the preposition "of" is not needed here, so you can say it as "repent all your sins to ***".

That said, I think "repent of" and "repent for" are sometimes treated as the same, though the former is much more common. For me, I would choose the former, but in a case as follows, I would say it like (only because it "sounds" better):

"He repented for sinning against ***."

Clearly, "He repented for sinning against ***" is intransitive, and "Repent all your sins to ***" is transitive (imperative).

On whether or not there are different shades of meaning involved, my dictionary is unclear.

I don't find anything suggesting that the transitive form takes an indirect object, but perhaps my dictionary hasn't caught up with current usage.

Not being big in the sinning department , I thought I'd chime in on this one, anyway. American Heritage lists the intransitive meanings as: 1) feel remorse, be contrite for something one has done; 2) to feel such regret that one changes one's mind about doing something (repent of certain behaviour); 3) to make a cha

Thank you, Philip.

Repent to ***.

Repent for my Sin.