[boatbums]

Rather than the mistaken idea that repentance means "turning from sin", the deeper sense is that repentance is "changing ones mind". From Strong's Concordance" http://biblehub.com/greek/3340.htm:

metanoeó: to change one's mind or purpose

Original Word: μετανοέω

Part of Speech: Verb

Transliteration: metanoeó

Phonetic Spelling: (met-an-o-eh'-o)

Short Definition: I repent, change my mind

Definition: I repent, change my mind, change the inner man (particularly with reference to acceptance of the will of God), repent.

The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will. (2 Timothy 2:24-26)

[CynicalBear]

Whenever I see that passage being quoted it reminds me of the importance of context. Without context we don't know who it was that was producing the quarrels.

1 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.