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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Corinthians 7 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_corinthians/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_corinthians/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 2 Corinthians 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_corinthians/6.htm" title="2 Corinthians 6">◄</a> 2 Corinthians 7 <a href="../2_corinthians/8.htm" title="2 Corinthians 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/2_corinthians/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek flesh">a</a></sup></span> and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.</p> <p class="heading">Paul’s Joy</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Make room in your hearts<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek lacks in your hearts">b</a></sup></span> for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore we are comforted.</p><p class="regular">And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Greek <i>flesh</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Greek lacks <i class="catch-word">in your hearts</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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