Rhetorical: Of course after the very specific listing of traits of which his congregation should be stripped, Alma formally calls for repentance. Repentance is the process by which the un-godlike is stripped from our hearts, and the healing hands of God may enter to help us. This is a greater call than to simply cease. Alma is not simply saying that they should stop being prideful - but that they should repent of being prideful. It is not saying simply stop persecuting, but to repent of persecuting. Where the stopping is a physical action, the repenting is a spiritual one, and there are tremendous differences to the soul between the cessation of an untoward action or trait, and the repentance of the same.