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We have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have overreached no man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I speak not this to your condemnation. For we 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 confidence for you, great is my glorying for you. I am filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For also when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we suffered all tribulation; combats without, fears within. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation, wherewith he was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent; and if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a time) did make you sorrowful; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful; but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you; yea defence, yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge: in all things you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that I did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it; but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation, we did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And his bowels are more abundantly towards you; remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you have received him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay-Rheims Bible<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_corinthians/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Corinthians 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_corinthians/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Corinthians 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/2_corinthians/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhsh.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>