2 Corinthians 7:10-12

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁰ For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

¹¹ For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you; yea defence, yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge: in all things you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter.

¹² Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that I did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it; but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you