yet now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.
I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine right
I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may retu
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing yo
For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relatio
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceivin
Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, star
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will lo
To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a
But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and