7:10a Godly sorrow brings repentance

For sorrow according to what God wants causes people to repent,
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For example, when a person grieves in a godly way, he changes his thinking ⌊and follows God⌋,

7:10b that leads to salvation without regret,

and that results in salvation and there is no regret ⌊in it⌋.
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so that God rescues/saves him ⌊from eternal death⌋. And no one is ever sad/sorry about those results.

7:10c but worldly sorrow brings death.

But worldly ⌊people’s kind of⌋ sorrow results in death.
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But the grief of worldly people leads to ⌊eternal⌋ death.

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