2 Corinthians 7:10
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to saluation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”
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2 Corinthians 7:10 Context
8For though I made you sory with a letter, I doe not repent, though I did repent: For I perceiue that the same Epistle hath made you sory, thogh it were but for a season. 9Now I reioyce, not that ye were made sorie, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorie after a godly maner, that ye might receiue damage by vs in nothing. 10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to saluation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 11For behold this selfe same thing that yee sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulnesse it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of your selues, yea, what indignation, yea what feare, yea what vehement desire, yea what zeale, yea what reuenge; In all things yee haue approued your selues to be cleare in this matter. 12Wherefore though I wrote vnto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appeare vnto you.
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For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
- King James Version
For the sorrow that is according to {the will of} God produces a repentance without regret, {leading} to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
- New American Standard Version (1995)