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For godly sorrow (hē gar kata theon lupē). “For the sorrow according to God” (God’s ideal, 2Co 7:9).
Worketh repentance unto salvation a repentance without regret (metanoian eis sōtērian ametamelēton ergazetai). This clause alone should have prevented the confusion between mere “sorrow” (lupē) as indicated in metamelomai, to regret (to be sorry again) and “change of mind and life” as shown by metanoian (metanoeō) and wrongly translated “repentance.” The sorrow according to God does work this “change of mind and life” unto salvation, a change “not to be regretted” (ametamelēton, an old verbal adjective of metamelomai and a privative, but here alone in N.T.). It agrees with metanoian, not sōtērian.
But the sorrow of the world (hē de tou kosmou lupē). In contrast, the kind of sorrow that the world has, grief “for failure, not for sin” (Bernard), for the results as seen in Cain, Esau (his tears!), and Judas (remorse, metemelēthē). Works out (perfective use of kaṫ) death in the end.