For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
En effet, la tristesse selon Dieu produit une repentance à salut dont on ne se repent jamais, tandis que la tristesse du monde produit la mort.
KJV
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Pacian of Barcelona
Three Letters to Sympronianus
thians 7:9. And again: "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret" 2 Corinthians 7:10. But one could not repent. No one commands labor without reward: "The worker is worthy of his wages" Matthew 10:10; Luke 10:7. God would never threaten someone…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
eem that there is a sorrow that is contrary to the pleasure of contemplation. For the Apostle says ( 2 Cor. 7:10 ): "The sorrow that is according to God, worketh penance steadfast unto salvation." Now to look at God belongs to the higher reason, whose act is to give itself to con…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
sin, may have been so in the past. And he is to be commended if he sorrow for that sin, according to 2 Cor. 7:10 : "The sorrow that is according to God worketh penance steadfast unto salvation." Fourthly, because he may praiseworthily sorrow for another's sin. Therefore sorrow is…
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