2 Corinthians 7:10 - Paul's Joy in the Corinthians (2024)

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New International Version
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.New Living Translation
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.English Standard Version
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.Berean Standard Bible
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.Berean Literal Bible
For grief according to God produces repentance to salvation without regret; but the world's grief produces death.King James Bible
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.New King James Version
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.New American Standard Bible
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.NASB 1995
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.NASB 1977
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.Legacy Standard Bible
For godly sorrow produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world brings about death.Amplified Bible
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.Christian Standard Bible
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly grief produces death.Holman Christian Standard Bible
For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief 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.Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For grief that is for God's sake produces a remorse of the soul which does not reverse itself and restores to life, but the grief of the world produces death.Contemporary English Version
When God makes you feel sorry enough to turn to him and be saved, you don't have anything to feel bad about. But when this world makes you feel sorry, it can cause your death. Douay-Rheims Bible
For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death. English Revised Version
For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.GOD'S WORD® Translation
In fact, to be distressed in a godly way causes people to change the way they think and act and leads them to be saved. No one can regret that. But the distress that the world causes brings only death.Good News Translation
For the sadness that is used by God brings a change of heart that leads to salvation--and there is no regret in that! But sadness that is merely human causes 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.Literal Standard Version
for sorrow toward God works conversion to salvation without regret, and the sorrow of the world works death,Majority Standard Bible
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.New American Bible
For godly sorrow produces a salutary repentance without regret, but worldly sorrow produces 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 Revised Standard Version
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.New Heart English Bible
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.Webster's Bible Translation
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.World English Bible
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death. Young's 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,Additional Translations ...

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(10) For godly sorrow.--Again we note the needless variation which is the easily besetting sin of the English version. Better, as before, the sorrow which is after the will of God.

Repentance to salvation not to be repented of.--Here the English effaces a distinction in the original. (See Note on Matthew 27:3,) Better, repentance unto salvation, giving no matter for regret. The adjective, or adjectival phrase, may qualify either "repentance" or "salvation." The latter seems preferable.

But the sorrow of the world worketh death.--As contrasted with "salvation," death must be taken in its widest sense. The mere sorrow of the world leads only to remorse and despair, to the death of a broken heart, possibly to suicide; in any case, to the loss of the true eternal life.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - For godly sorrow, etc. "For the sorrow Which is according to God worketh out a repentance unto salvation which bringeth no regret." Sin causes regret, remorse, that sort of repentance (metomeleia) which is merely an unavailing rebellion against the inevitable consequences of misdoing; but the sorrow of self-reproach which follows true repentance (metanoia, change of mind) is never followed by regret. Some take "not to be regretted" with "salvation," but it is a very unsuitable adjective to that substantive. The sorrow of the world. Here sorrow for the loss, or disappointment, or shame, or ruin, or sickness caused by sin; such as the false repentance of Cain, Saul, Ahithophel, Judas, etc. Death. Moral and spiritual death always, and sometimes physical death, and always - unless it is followed by true repentance - eternal death, which is the opposite of salvation (Romans 5:21). Parallel Commentaries ...