For even if I made you sad ¹  by my letter, ²  I do not regret having written it ³  (even though I did regret it, ⁴  for ⁵  I see that my letter made you sad, ⁶  though only for a short time).

For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.

“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. No one regretted his death; ¹  he was buried in the City of David, ²  but not in the royal tombs.

The Lord regretted ¹  that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended. ² 

The boy answered, ¹  ‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart ²  and went.

Until the day he ¹  died Samuel did not see Saul again. Samuel did, however, mourn for Saul, but the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Another ¹  said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, ²  and I am going out ³  to examine them. Please excuse me.’

I have listened to them very carefully, ¹  but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, “I have done wrong!” ²  All of them persist in their own wayward course ³  like a horse charging recklessly into battle.

But one after another they all ¹  began to make excuses. ²  The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, ³  and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’ ⁴ 

Then I would not be ashamed, if ¹  I were focused on ²  all your commands.

“Repent, ¹  for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

The Preeminent One ¹  of Israel does not go back on his word ²  or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.” ³ 

Now when ¹  Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus ²  had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

Don’t worry ¹  about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”

The people regretted what had happened to ¹  Benjamin because the Lord had weakened ²  the Israelite tribes.

Afterward David’s conscience bothered him ¹  because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated!

Esteem her highly ¹  and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

And at the end of your life ¹  you will groan ²  when your flesh and your body are wasted away. ³