Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Cross References
Psalm 38:18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
Ecclesiastes 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
Acts 11:18When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, "So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life."
2 Corinthians 7:9And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.
Treasury of Scripture
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death.
repentance.
2 Corinthians 12:21
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
1 Kings 8:47-50
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; …
the sorrow.
Genesis 4:13-15
And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear…
Genesis 30:1
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
