2 Corinthians 7
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1Therefore, dear friends, since we have such promises, # Gn 12:7 let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, # Ps 51:12 completing our sanctification # Or spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. # Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Rv 14:7
Joy and Repentance
2Accept us. # Lit Make room for us We have wronged no one, corrupted # 1Co 3:17; 15:33; 2Co 11:3; Eph 4:22; 2Pt 2:12; Jd 10; Rv 19:2 no one, defrauded no one. 3I don’t say this to condemn you, for I have already said that you are in our hearts, to live together and to die together. 4I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overcome with joy in all our afflictions.
5In fact, when we came into Macedonia, # Ac 16:9 we # Lit our flesh had no rest. Instead, we were troubled in every way: conflicts # Jms 4:1; Ti 3:9 on the outside, fears # Jn 7:13; Ac 27:29 inside. 6But God, who comforts the humble, # Mt 11:29 comforted us by the arrival of Titus, 7and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he received from you. He told us about your deep longing, your sorrow, # Or lamentation, or mourning and your zeal # Nm 25:13 for me, so that I rejoiced even more. 8For even if I grieved you with my letter, # 2Co 2:2,4 I do not regret it — even though I did regret it since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a little while. 9Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God willed, so that you didn’t experience any loss from us. 10For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death. # Mt 10:21; Jn 8:51; Php 3:10 11For consider how much diligence this very thing — this grieving as God wills — has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure # Php 4:8 in this matter. 12So even though I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong, or because of the one who was wronged, but in order that your diligence for us might be made plain to you in the sight of God. 13For this reason we have been comforted.
In addition to our comfort, we rejoiced even more over the joy Titus # Ti 1:4 had, # Lit the joy of Titus because his spirit was refreshed by all of you. 14For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrassed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, # Ps 119:142; Jn 8:14; 14:6; 2Co 11:10; 1Jn 5:20; 3Jn 3 so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth. 15And his affection toward you is even greater as he remembers the obedience of all of you, and how you received him with fear and trembling. 16I rejoice that I have complete confidence in you.
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2 Corinthians 7
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1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear. 2Receive us: we have injured no one, we have ruined no one, we have made gain of no one. 3I do not speak for condemnation, for I have already said that ye are in our hearts, to die together, and live together. 4Great is my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.
5For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears. 6But he who encourages those that are brought low, even God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus; 7and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced. 8For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even it were only for a time, grieved you. 9Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us. 10For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death. 11For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in you, but what excusing of yourselves, but what indignation, but what fear, but what ardent desire, but what zeal, but what vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
12So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God. 13For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. 14Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been the truth; 15and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. 16I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.