REPENTANCE BIBLE STUDY

Here's a Daily Bread Crumb to snack on. This epistle that we're studying now, although it's called 2 Corinthians, was probably not the second and last letter that Paul had written to the people of Corinth, but is the second letter to the Corinthians chosen to be included in the Bible by Religious leaders way back when.

For though I made you sorry with a letter,
I don't regret it, though I did regret it:
for I perceive that the same letter has made you sad,
though it was only for a little while.
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sad,
but that your sorrow brought you to repentance:
for you were made sorry according to a godly manner,
that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be regretted:
but the sorrow of the world is deathly.

Another great comparison between godly sorrow and worldly sorrow. Here's more about that:

For behold this very same thing,
that you sorrowed after a godly sort,
what carefulness it brought about in you,
yes, what clearing of yourselves,
yes, what indignation,
yes, what fear,
yes, what vehement desire,
yes, what zeal,
yes, what revenge!
In all things you have proven yourselves to be clear in this matter.