10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; …
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)There seems to be a connection between 2 Cor. 2:13 ; 7:5 (where the apostle said he had no rest in his spirit when he found not Titus at Troas) and the 2 Cor. 2:13 ; 7:5 : and so great was his affection to the Corinthians, and his concern about their behaviour in relation to the incestuous person, that, in his further travels, he still had no rest till he heard from them. And now he tells them, I.…
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