10For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.


In Context

7 and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

8 For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even it were only for a time, grieved you.

9 Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.

10 For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.

11 For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in you, but what excusing of yourselves, but what indignation, but what fear, but what ardent desire, but what zeal, but what vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

12 So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

2 Corinthians 7:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:10Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:10For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:10For godly sorrow worketh penitence to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:10For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:10for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:10For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death.