Sha'ul�s Second Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 7
{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. {7:2} Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one.
We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one. {7:3} I say this not
to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to
die together and live together. {7:4} Great is my boldness of speech
toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with
comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction. {7:5} For even
when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were
afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
{7:6} Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by
the coming of Titus; {7:7} and not by his coming only, but also by the
comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us your
longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still
more. {7:8} 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. {7:9} 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. {7:10} For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which
brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death. {7:11} 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. {7:12} 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 earnest care for us might be
revealed in you in the sight of God. {7:13} Therefore we have been
comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy
of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. {7:14} For
if in anything I have boasted 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. {7:15} His
affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of
your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him. {7:16} I
rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
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