2 Corinthians 7:10 - Compare All Versions

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

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly grief produces death.

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

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets.

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.

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.

For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.