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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_corinthians/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Paul’s Joy in the Corinthians<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Receive us; we injured none, we corrupted none, we took advantage of none. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I speak not to condemnation: for I have said before, ye are in our hearts to die together, and live together. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort which he was comforted in you, announcing to us your anxious desire, your lamentations, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For if I also grieved you in the epistle, I regret not, and if I did regret: for I see that that epistle, if also for a time, grieved you. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore have we been comforted in your comfort: and we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed from you all. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And his bowels are more abundantly to you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and tremor ye received him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I rejoice that I place confidence in you in everything.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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