TSK · 2 Corinthians 7:9

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.