We say that good fruit, good works in every kind of life, should follow repentance, that is, conversion or regeneration. Neither can there be true conversion or true contrition where the putting to death of the flesh and bearing good fruit do not follow. True terrors, true griefs of mind, do not allow the body to satisfy itself in sensual pleasures, and true faith is not ungrateful to God. Neither does true faith hate God's commandants. In a word, there is no inner repentance unless it produces the outward putting to death of the flesh. - Apology of the Augsburg Confession XII: 34
Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions. 1st edition. St. Louis: Concordia, 2005
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