2 Corinthians 7:10-12

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁰ For godly sorrow causes repentance unto salvation, not to be reconsidered. But the worldly sorrow causes death.

¹¹ For behold, this thing of which you have been godly sorry, what great care it has wrought in you; yea, what acquittal of yourselves; yea, what indignation; yea, what fear; yea, how great desire; yea, what a zeal; yea, what vengeance. In all things, you have shown yourselves to be pure in this matter.

¹² Therefore, though I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of the one who had done the wrong, nor the sake of the one who had the injury, but that our care toward you in the sight of God might appear to you.