Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.
New American Standard Bible
For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a
King James Version
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Holman Bible
For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.
International Standard Version
For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
American Standard Version
For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Amplified
For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe] produces death.
An Understandable Version
For the sorrow that God desires produces repentance [i.e., a change of heart and life] that leads to salvation, and which brings no regrets. But the sorrow of the world [i.e., sorrow for wrongdoing for reasons unrelated to God or moral principles] produces [spiritual] death.
Anderson New Testament
For godly sorrow works repentance not to be regretted, which leads to salvation: but the sorrow of the world works death.
Bible in Basic English
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
Common New Testament
For godly sorrow produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly sorrow produces death.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for religious sorrow produces that salutary repentance, which we never regret: but worldly sorrow preys upon life.
Darby Translation
For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.
Godbey New Testament
For a godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world works out death.
Goodspeed New Testament
For the pain that God approves results in a repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets; but the world's pain results in death.
John Wesley New Testament
For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation not to be repented of, whereas the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Julia Smith Translation
For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.
King James 2000
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be regretted: but the sorrow of the world works death.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For grief according to [the will of] God brings about a repentance [leading] to salvation, not to be regretted, but worldly grief brings about death.
Modern King James verseion
For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For ye sorrowed godly: so that in nothing were ye hurt by us. For godly sorrow causeth repentance, unto salvation not to be repented of: when worldly sorrow causeth death.
Moffatt New Testament
the pain God is allowed to guide ends in a saving repentance never to be regretted, whereas the world's pain ends in death.
Montgomery New Testament
For your pain came from God, and so you took no harm from me. For the pain which is from God works repentance leading to salvation, a repentance never to be regretted. But the world's pain works death.
NET Bible
For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.
New Heart English Bible
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
Noyes New Testament
For sorrow before God worketh repentance to salvation never to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Sawyer New Testament
For godly sorrow produces a change of mind to salvation not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
The Emphasized Bible
For, grief according to God, worketh, repentance unto salvation, not to be regretted; although, the grieving of the world, worketh, death.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For sorrow of a godly sort worketh repentance unto salvation never to be repented of, but worldly sorrow worketh death.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For, when sorrow is in accordance with God's will, it results in a repentance leading to Salvation, and which will never be regretted. The sure result of the sorrow that the world knows is Death.
Webster
For godly sorrow worketh penitence to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Weymouth New Testament
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, a repentance not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world finally produces death.
Williams New Testament
For the sorrow that comes in accordance with the will of God results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets, but the sorrow the world produces results in death.
World English Bible
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
Worrell New Testament
For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world works death.
Worsley New Testament
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Youngs 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,
Themes
Contrition » Promises to those who come in contrition
God's Promises » Special promises to children, examples of » To the contrite
Repentance » What works repentance
Repentance » Called repentance unto salvation
Repentance » Not to be repented of
Repentance » Godly sorrow works
Returning to God » Promises to those who come in contrition
Salvation » Godly sorrow worketh repentance unto
Topics
Interlinear
Katergazomai
κατεργάζομαι
Katergazomai
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 7:10
Images 2 Corinthians 7:10
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 7:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Letter That Caused Sadness
9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved for repentance. For ye were grieved toward God, so that ye might suffer loss from us in nothing. 10 For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death. 11 For behold this same thing--your grieving toward God. How much eagerness it worked in you, even a defense, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even vengeance! In everything ye demonstrated yourselves to be pure in
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Cross References
Acts 11:18
And when they heard these things, they relaxed and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against LORD. And Nathan said to David, LORD also has put away thy sin; thou shall not die.
1 Kings 8:47-50
yet if they shall rethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to thee in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Genesis 4:13-15
And Cain said to LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 30:1
And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters. But David strengthened himself in LORD his God.
2 Samuel 13:4
And he said to him, Why, O son of the king, are thou emaciated this way from day to day? Will thou not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
1 Kings 21:4
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid himself down upon his bed, and tu
Job 33:27-28
He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?
Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Ezekiel 7:16
But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.
Ezekiel 18:27-30
Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Jonah 3:8
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily to God. Yea, let them turn each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jonah 3:10
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Jonah 4:9
And God said to Jonah, Do thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.
Matthew 21:28-32
But what does it seem to you? A man had two children. And having come to the first, he said, Child, go work today in my vineyard.
Matthew 26:75
And Peter remembered the saying that Jesus said to him, Before a cock sounds, thou will deny me thrice. And having gone outside, he wept bitterly.
Matthew 27:4-5
saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it.
Luke 15:10
Thus I say to you, there becomes joy in the presence of the agents of God over one sinner who repents.
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.
Acts 3:19
Repent ye therefore, and be converted in order to wipe away your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
in mildness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,
Hebrews 12:17
For ye also know that wanting afterward to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though having sought it with tears.