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2 Corinthians
7
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let
us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh
and of the spirit, perfecting sactification in the fear
of God.
Receive us. We have injured no man, we have corrupted
no man, we have overreached no man.
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.
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.
For also when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh
had no rest, but we suffered all tribulation; combats
without, fears within.
But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by
the coming of Titus.
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.
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;
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.
For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance,
steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world
worketh death.
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.
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
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.
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.
And his bowels are more abundantly towards you; remembering
the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling
you have received him.
I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you.
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