Regret
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· 8 viewsDeep feelings of sorrow arising from past events now seen as sins, mistakes or misfortunes. It can either lead to true repentance or destructive bitterness.
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Examples and expressions of regret
Examples and expressions of regret
Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will not harm you again because my life was precious in your sight this day. Behold, I have played the fool and have committed a serious error.”
See also ; Aaron and Miriam when they had spoken against Moses; ; Jephthah when he returned home from fighting the Ammonites
David when he counted the fighting men:
David when he counted the fighting men:
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Ahab after he murdered Naboth and seized his vineyard; ; Peter when he disowned Jesus Christ; Judas after betraying Jesus Christ
Divine expressions of regret
Divine expressions of regret
The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
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Actions which may lead to regret
Actions which may lead to regret
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The bitterness of vain regrets
The bitterness of vain regrets
There is no remedy for bitter regrets
There is no remedy for bitter regrets
that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.
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The unending remorse of the lost
The unending remorse of the lost
“Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
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Regret is an element of true repentance
Regret is an element of true repentance
For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—
I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.
For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
See also ; ; Josiah’s response on finding the Book of the Law; ; ; ; ; ; ; the repentance of Nineveh; ; the prodigal son;
Absence of regret
Absence of regret
Sinning without shame
Sinning without shame
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When the wicked die
When the wicked die
He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
At the end of life
At the end of life
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In God’s new creation
In God’s new creation
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.
“But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing
And her people for gladness.
“I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;
And there will no longer be heard in her
The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.
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