2 Corinthians 7:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

2 Corinthians 7:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 3:19
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Acts 11:18
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; …
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
Luke 18:13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-11)

There seems to be a connection between 2 Cor. 2:13; 7:5 (where the apostle said he had no rest in his spirit when he found not Titus at Troas) and the 2 Cor. 2:13; 7:5: and so great was his affection to the Corinthians, and his concern about their behaviour in relation to the incestuous person, that, in his further travels, he still had no rest till he heard from them. And now he tells them, I. Ho…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. worketh ... worketh--In the best Greek reading the translation is, “worketh (simply) ... worketh out.” “Sorrow” is not repentance, but, where it is “godly,” “worketh” it; that is, contributes or tends to it (the same Greek word is in Ro 13:10). The “sorrow of the world” (that is, such as is felt by the worldly) “worketh out,” as its result at last, (eternal) death (the same Greek verb is in 2C…