2 Corinthians 7:8-11

New American Standard Bible

⁸ For though I ^(A)caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while— ⁹ I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything ^[a]through us. ¹⁰ For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a ^(B)repentance ^[b]without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. ¹¹ For behold what earnestness this very thing, this ^[c]godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what ^(C)longing, what zeal, what ^(D)punishment of wrong! In everything you ^(E)demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.