Repent means to turn, from one thing to another. It has to be categorical though and that's what people seem to miss. You don't repent from a Gas Station to a Dollar General for gas. Just like you wouldn't turn from your sins to Jesus for salvation they are different things. Nobody is trusting their sins to get them to heaven. You turn from whatever you are trusting for heaven, be it a false god or works. You cease from your works solely resting in His finished work (in context of earning it) on the cross. This doesn't mean sin is fine and dandy, but it's not salvific except from saving your flesh of His chastisement of His Sons to further conform us to the image of the Son.

You won't find "repent of your sins" in phrasing in the text, you'll find demands to repent, and the context dictates what's being repented of. People just plug in "of your sins" due to historical works based teachings teaching them to do that with the term.

Repent means to turn, from one thing to another. It has to be categorical though and that's what people seem to miss. You don't repent from a Gas Station to a Dollar General for gas. Just like you wouldn't turn from your sins to Jesus for salvation they are different things. Nobody is trusting their sins to get them to heaven. You turn from whatever you are trusting for heaven, be it a false god or works. You cease from your works solely resting in His finished work (in context of earning it) on the cross. This doesn't mean sin is fine and dandy, but it's not salvific except from saving your flesh of His chastisement of His Sons to further conform us to the image of the Son.