2 Corinthians 7:10

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Summary

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

The sorrow

General references

Matthew 5:4

Bible References

The sorrow

And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke 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.

And he said unto him, Why are you, being the king's son, so haggard from day to day? will you not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

And Ahab came into his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid himself down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

And God said to Jonah, Do you do well to be angry about the plant? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see you to that.

For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

General references

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.