¹⁰Distress 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.

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2 Corinthians 7:10: For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew 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.

LEBThe Lexham English 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

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

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