Godly Sorrow → נָחַם Repentance = Broken Grief at the Cross or Eternal Wrath: Genesis 6 Flood is our teacher
Genesis 6:6 “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” King James Version (KJV) 2 Corinthians Chapter 7 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Godly Sorrow → נָחַם Repentance = Broken Grief at the Cross or Eternal Wrath: Genesis 6:6 is our lesson on understanding Repentance. Genesis 6:6 is the first place Scripture says God “repented” (נָחַם). His heart was broken with holy grief over man’s sin—so broken that only the Flood could console His wounded holiness. That same נָחַם grief is what 2 Corinthians 7:10 calls “godly sorrow that worketh repentance…unto salvation.” It is the crushing realization that our sin did the same thing to the heart of God that moved Him...