Although the king regretted it, he commanded that it be granted because of his oaths and his guests.

He answered and said, I will not. But he afterward regretted it, and went.

Then [when] Judas, the one who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he regretted [what he had done] [and] returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and elders,

For, not to be regretted, are the gifts and the calling of God: -

Because, if I even grieved you by the letter, I do not regret, - though I could even have regretted, - I see that that letter, if even for an hour, did cause you grief.

For grief according to [the will of] God brings about a repentance [leading] to salvation, not to be regretted, but worldly grief brings about death.