2 Corinthians 7:10 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁰ For sadness according to Elohim works repentance to deliverance, not to be regretted, but the sadness of the world works death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ For godly grief and the pain God is permitted to direct, produce a repentance that leads and contributes to salvation and deliverance from evil, and it never brings regret; but worldly grief (the hopeless sorrow that is characteristic of the pagan world) is deadly [breeding and ending in death].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Godly sadness produces a changed heart and life that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets, but sorrow under the influence of the world produces death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ For the sorrow that is according to God accomplishes a repentance which is steadfast unto salvation. But the sorrow that is of the world accomplishes death.

2 Corinthians 7:10 Cross References

Genesis 30:1

And when Raḥ

2 Samuel 12:13

And Dawiḏ

2 Samuel 13:4

And he said to him, “Why are you, the sovereign’s son, becoming thinner day after day? Explain it to me.” And Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Aḇ

2 Samuel 17:23

And Aḥ

1 Kings 21:4

And Aḥ

Psalm 38:18

For I confess my crookedness; I am sorry over my sin.

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes good a face, But by sorrow of heart the spirit is stricken.

Proverbs 15:15

All the days of the afflicted are evil, But gladness of heart is a continual feast.

Proverbs 17:22

A rejoicing heart causes good healing, But a stricken spirit dries the bones.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man sustains him in sickness, But who does bear a broken spirit?

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart becomes better.

Jeremiah 31:9

“With weeping they shall come, and with their prayers I bring them. I shall make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not stumble. For I shall be a Father to Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 7:16

while they who escape of them shall escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his crookedness.

Jonah 3:10

And Elohim saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And Elohim relented from the evil which He had said He would do to them, and He did not do it.

Jonah 3:8

“But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and call mightily to Elohim. And let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

Jonah 4:9

And Elohim said to Yonah, “Have you rightly become displeased over the plant?” And he said, “I have rightly become displeased, even to death!”

Matthew 26:75

And Kĕ

Luke 15:10

“I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting.”

Luke 18:13

“But the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!’

Acts 11:18

And having heard this, they were silent, and praised Elohim, saying, “Then Elohim has indeed also given to the gentiles repentance to life.”

Acts 3:19

“Repent therefore and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, in order that times of refreshing might come from the presence of the Master,

2 Corinthians 12:21

and lest, when I come again, my Elohim should humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, and whoring, and indecency which they have practised.

2 Corinthians 7:9

I now rejoice, not that you were made sad, but that you were saddened into repenting. For you were made sad according to Elohim, so that you suffered no loss from us.

Hebrews 12:17

For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.

1 Samuel 30:6

And Dawiḏ