2 Corinthians 7:9

A Letter That Caused Sadness

⁸ For even if I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it—even though I did regret it since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a little while. ⁹ Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God willed, so that you didn’t experience any loss from us. ¹⁰ For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.

Godly Sorrow

Will of God

Change Of Heart

O God

No

Acts 20:21

I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

Psalm 38:18

So I confess my guilt;
I am anxious because of my sin.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Grief is better than laughter,
for when a face is sad, a heart may be glad.

Isaiah 6:9-11

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have heard Ephraim moaning,
“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined
like an untrained calf.
Restore me, and I will return,
for you, Lord, are my God.

Zechariah 12:10

“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn.

Luke 15:7

I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don’t need repentance.

Luke 15:10

I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 15:17-24

When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

2 Corinthians 1:12

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

2 Corinthians 7:6-7

But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.

2 Corinthians 10:8-10

For if I boast some more about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I am not ashamed.

2 Corinthians 13:8-10

For we are not able to do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.