New Testament · SCRIPTURE
2 Corinthians 7:10
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Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
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For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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For grief according to God works repentance unto salvation without regret; but the grief of the world produces death.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
2 Corinthians 7
8 Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it—for I see that my letter caused you sorrow, but only for a short time—
9 yet now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.
10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
11 Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
12 So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.
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