Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh 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.
A Conservative Version
For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works 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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Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 7:10
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 7:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Letter That Caused Sadness
9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
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Cross References
Acts 11:18
And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also hath God granted repentance unto life.
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said unto David, Jehovah also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
1 Kings 8:47-50
yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
Genesis 4:13-15
And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 30:1
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake 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 Jehovah his God.
2 Samuel 13:4
And he said unto him, Why, O son of the king, art thou thus lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto 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 ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre 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 him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Job 33:27-28
He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart maketh 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 that is of a cheerful heart hath 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 with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
Ezekiel 7:16
But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
Ezekiel 18:27-30
Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth 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 unto God: yea, let them turn every 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 repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah 4:9
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
Matthew 21:28-32
But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.
Matthew 26:75
And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Matthew 27:4-5
saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to it .
Luke 15:10
Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Luke 18:13
But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.
Acts 3:19
Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,
Hebrews 12:17
For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought is diligently with tears.