American Standard Version
"For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. "
— 2 Corinthians 7:10, American Standard Version
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”
“For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.”
“For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.”
“For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”
“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.”
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”
and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.
For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret it (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),
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.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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.
So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.
Therefore we have been comforted: and in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.