Here's one way to distinguish between worldly grief and godly grief: one mobilizes you into action and the other immobilizes you.

2 янв. 2021 г. · Repentance is a change of mind about one's sin, a turning from it to something else. The regret that leads to repentance is the only valid regret or sorrow.

I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in ...

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry. Their grief and sorrow, as a natural passion, was no matter or cause of joy to him.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us ...

14 июл. 2019 г. · For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without ...

Godly sorrow, also translated “godly grief,” is an acute sense of sadness we experience as a result of the sins we have committed.

Sorrow in a godly manner is sorrow that is characterized by a profound understanding of the consequences of sin.

David Guzik commentary on 2 Corinthians 7, where Paul describes how he was comforted by the Corinthian Christians' repentance.