2 Corinthians 7:10
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
In context
8 Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it, I now see that my letter caused you sorrow, but only for a short time.
9 And 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.
2 Corinthians 7:10 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
- KJV King James Version
- For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
- WEB World English Bible
- For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,
- DBY Darby Translation
- For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For godly sorrow worketh penitence to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.