2 CORINTHIANS 7:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death — the binary: godly sorrow → repentance → salvation (aseitan ouk metamelomai); worldly sorrow → death (thanatos). The affective root determines the outcome. Paul diagnoses spiritual psychology.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 7:10
“For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, a repentance which brings no regret.” 'Therefore,' he says, 'though I did regret before I saw the fruit and the gain, how great they were I do not regret now .' For such a thing is godly sorrow. And then he philosophizes about it, showing that sorrow is not in all cases a grievous thing, but when it is worldly. And what is worldly? If you be in sorrow for money, for reputation, for him that is departed, all these are…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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