Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief 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.
A Conservative Version
For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works 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.
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 to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us. 10 For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death. 11 For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair.
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Cross References
Acts 11:18
And having heard these, they were silent, and honoured God, saying, For also God gave the nations repentance to life.
2 Samuel 12:13
And David will say to Nathan, I sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan will say to David, Jehovah also passed over thy sin; thou shalt not die.
1 Kings 8:47-50
And they turned back to their heart in the land which they were carried captive there, and they turned back and supplicated to thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We sinned and acted perversely, and did evil;
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart shall make good healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry up the bones.
Genesis 4:13-15
And Cain will say to Jehovah, My sin is great, above bearing.
Genesis 30:1
And Rachel will see that she shall not bring forth to Jacob, and Rachel will envy her sister, and will say to Jacob, Give me sons, and if not, I die.
1 Samuel 30:6
And it will press upon David greatly, for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters: and David will be strengthened in Jehovah his God.
2 Samuel 13:4
And he will say to him, Wherefore thou so weak, son of the king, in morning by morning? wilt thou not announce to me? and Amnon will say to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel 17:23
And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he will saddle the ass and rise and go to his house to his city, and command his house, and he will strangle himself and die. And he will be buried in the grave of his father.
1 Kings 21:4
And Ahab will come to his house rebellious and angry for the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spake to him: and he will say, I will not give to thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he will lie down upon his bed and turn away his face, and not eat bread.
Job 33:27-28
He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;
Proverbs 15:13
A heart of joy will do the face good: and by pains of heart the spirit was dejected.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil: and the good of heart drinking always.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of man will sustain his disease; and a dejected spirit who shall lift up?
Jeremiah 31:9
In weeping will they come, and I will lead them in mercies; I will cause them to go to the streams of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it: for I was to Israel for a father, and Ephraim he is my first-born.
Ezekiel 7:16
And they escaping, escaped, and they were on the mountains as doves of the valleys, all of them slain, a man for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 18:27-30
And in the unjust one turning back from his injustice which he did; and he will do judgment and justice, he shall save his soul alive.
Jonah 3:8
And man and beast shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry with strength to Jehovah: and they shall turn back each from his evil way, and the violence which is in their hands.
Jonah 3:10
And God will see their works that they turned back from their evil way, and God will lament for the evil which he spake to do to them: and he did it not
Jonah 4:9
And God will say to Jonah, Was it well to kindle to thee for the gourd? And he will say, It was well to kindle to me, even to death.
Matthew 21:28-32
But what seems to you A man had two children; and having come to the first, he said, Child, retire to-day, work in my vineyard.
Matthew 26:75
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, having said to him, That before the cock utter a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice. And having gone forth without, he wept bitterly.
Matthew 27:4-5
Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see.
Luke 15:10
So, I say to you, joy is in heaven before the messengers of God for one sinful changing the mind.
Luke 18:13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful.
Acts 3:19
Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord;
2 Corinthians 12:21
Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;
Hebrews 12:17
For ye know also afterwards, wishing to inherit the praise, he was disapproved of: for he found no place for a change of mind, although having sought it with tears.