{"id":5361,"date":"2025-06-14T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2025-06-14T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:56:10","slug":"repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5361","title":{"rendered":"Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>The Apostle Paul writing to the Corinthians:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>For though I&nbsp;caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it\u2014for&nbsp;I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while &#8211; I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to&nbsp;the point of&nbsp;repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to&nbsp;the will of&nbsp;God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything&nbsp;through us.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>For the sorrow* that is according to&nbsp;the will of&nbsp;God produces a&nbsp;repentance&nbsp;without regret,&nbsp;leading&nbsp;to salvation, but the sorrow* of the world produces death.&nbsp;<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>For behold what earnestness this very thing, this&nbsp;godly sorrow*, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what&nbsp;longing, what zeal, what&nbsp;avenging of wrong! In everything you&nbsp;demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.&nbsp;<\/em>  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">            <strong> II Corinthians 7:8-11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<em><strong>Sorrow &#8211; grief,  pain, heaviness of mind.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<strong><em>W.E. Vines Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Copyright 1984, 1996, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, TN.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apostle Paul writing to the Corinthians: For though I&nbsp;caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it\u2014for&nbsp;I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while &#8211; I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to&nbsp;the point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Repentance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}