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We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I do not speak to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Great is my boldness toward you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side—conflicts without, fears within. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But God, who comforts the humbled, comforted us by the coming of Titus; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it—<i>for</i> I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while— <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance. For you were made to have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>godly sorrow, so that you might not suffer loss in anything <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>through us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>godly sorrow produces a repentance <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>without regret, <i>leading</i> to salvation, but the sorrow of the world brings about death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For behold what earnestness this very thing—this <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>godly sorrow—has brought about in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So although I wrote to you, <i>it was</i> not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For this reason we have been comforted. <p class="reg"> And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame, but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be <i>the</i> truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And his <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I rejoice that in everything I am encouraged about you.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>sorrow according to God</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>from</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>sorrow according to God</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Or leading <i>to a salvation without regret</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>sorrow according to God</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Lit <i>inward parts</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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