10 合乎上帝心意的忧伤会带来悔改,使人得到救恩,永不后悔,但世俗的忧伤只会带来死亡。

11 你们看,合乎上帝心意的忧伤使你们产生了何等的迫切感啊!你们热切地辩明自己的立场,对罪愤慨,恐惧战抖,期盼与我相见,疾恶如仇,惩处罪恶。你们在各方面已显明自己在那件事上是清白的。

12 因此,虽然我给你们写过信,但并非为了那犯错的人或那受害的人而写的,而是为了让你们在上帝面前看到自己对我们所存的热心。

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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. 12 So even though I wrote to you,(C) it was neither on account of the one who did the wrong(D) nor on account of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are.

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