¹⁸ For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, And you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹³ He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, But whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

³³ If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my heart,

²⁷ He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it didn't profit me.

³ For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

⁸ For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

⁹ I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

¹¹ For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.