impenitence

Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.

During conversion, one is moved from impenitence to repentance.

Lord, I repent: help thou mine impenitence.

Help Thou mine impenitence, and more and more pierce, rend, and crush my heart.

Only despair and final impenitence are unpardonable, and they are not sins of our life but in our death."

What made Mr. Honecker's flight especially galling to many Germans was the old Communist's impenitence.

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

Keeping one eye on the movements of his crew forward, he let loose his volubility - comparing the place to a "cage of beasts made ravenous by long impenitence."

I killed but one man upon a provocation, and do truly repent of it; but you have killed many persons of all sorts, without any provocation from them, and are hardened in your impenitence."

She approved, as it were, both Erendis' treatment of Aldarion on his late return, but also Aldarion's anger, impenitence, and subsequent relentless dismissal of Erendis from his heart and concern.

In the Gospel of Matthew (and corresponding verse) when Jesus warns of a worse judgment for some cities than Sodom, inhospitality is perceived by some as the sin, while others see it fundamentally being impenitence:

Yes, he had done them, secretly, filthily, time after time, and, hardened in sinful impenitence, he had dared to wear the mask of holiness before the tabernacle itself while his soul within was a living mass of corruption.

When Martin Amis gave a central character in his scabrous, compulsive novel "Money" the name John Self, he was showing (or showing off) the impenitence and outsize ambitions of his satire on materialism and the ego.

In the ninth place, if you have believed and do believe that all who have raised themselves against the faith of the Roman Church and have died in final impenitence have been damned and have descended to the eternal punishments of hell."