{"id":351237,"date":"2026-04-20T07:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351237"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:07:16","slug":"repentance-or-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/repentance-or-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Repentance or Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. (2 Corinthians 7:10)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf the wicked person feels shame and sorrow for their sin and sincerely repents, God will give them the joy of salvation.<\/p>\n<p>But those who ignore that they are a sinner and want to enjoy the world will face sorrow and death, and it will be too late, without being able to resort to the Lord&#8217;s forgiveness and redeem themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. (2 Corinthians 7:10) &nbsp; If the wicked person feels shame and sorrow for their sin and sincerely repents, God will give them the joy of salvation. But those who ignore that they are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351239,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351237\/revisions\/351239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351237"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}