What is the difference between worldly and godly sorrow?

Jason Dohm explains in this video that there is a clear difference between worldly sorrow and godly sorrow. Judas exemplified worldly sorrow. After he betrayed Christ, he was sorry and flung the money into the temple, but he then went and hung himself. His worldly sorrow literally resulted in his death. Godly sorrow drives you to repentance. It leads to salvation.

2 Corinthians 7:8-10 (NKJV) – “For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. 9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.”



So there's a tremendous difference between godly sorrow, real repentance, and worldly sorrow which is sort of the world's counterfeit for repentance. And Paul addresses this so explicitly in 2 Corinthians chapter 7. I'll just read verses 8 through 10. Paul writes, for even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while.

Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted. But the sorrow of the world produces death." I think this is probably perfectly exemplified in the life of Judas. He betrayed Christ and he was very sorry.

He goes and he flings the money back into the temple and then he goes and hangs himself. He had this worldly sorrow and it literally led to death in the instance of Judas, but godly sorrow is different. Godly sorrow drives you to repentance, to confess and forsake your sin and to find mercy in Christ and it actually leads to salvation.