2Cor 7
1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement
of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2
Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage
of no man.
3
I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts
to die together and live together.
4
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I
am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
5
For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we were] afflicted
on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.
6
Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, [even] God, comforted us by the coming of
Titus;
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and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in
you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced
yet more.
8
For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret
[it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),
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I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance;
for you were made sorry after a godly sort, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
10
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, [a repentance] which brings no regret:
but the sorrow of the world works death.
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For behold, this selfsame thing, that you were made sorry after a godly sort, what
earn care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation,
yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything you
approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
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So although I wrote to you, I [wrote] not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for
his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earn care for us might be made manifest
to you in the sight of God.
13
Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly
for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
14
For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but
as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus
was found to be truth.
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And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience
of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.
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I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.