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

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

BBE - 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.

WEB - For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

YLT - for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

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