10     and those the Lord has rescued(A) will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;(B)
    everlasting joy(C) will crown their heads.
Gladness(D) and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.(E)

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Blessed are those who mourn,
    for they will be comforted.(A)

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10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation(A) and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 11 See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern,(B) what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

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Trials and Temptations

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:2 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in verses 16 and 19; and in 2:1, 5, 14; 3:10, 12; 4:11; 5:7, 9, 10, 12, 19.

‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes.(A) There will be no more death’[a](B) or mourning or crying or pain,(C) for the old order of things has passed away.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 21:4 Isaiah 25:8

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