New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 7:4-16

4Great is my 1confidence 2in you; great is my 3boasting on your behalf. I am filled with 4comfort; I am overflowing with 5joy in all our affliction.

5For even when we came into 6Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were 7afflicted on every side: 8conflicts without, fears within. 6But 9God, who comforts the 10depressed, 11comforted us by the coming of 12Titus; 7and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced even more. 8For though I 13caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it--for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while-- 9I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything 14through us. 10For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a 15repentance 16without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. 11For behold what earnestness this very thing, this 17godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what 18longing, what zeal, what 19avenging of wrong! In everything you 20demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter. 12So although 21I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of 22the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God. 13For this reason we have been 23comforted.

And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of 24Titus, because his 25spirit has been refreshed by you all. 14For if in anything I have 26boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before 27Titus proved to be the truth. 15His 28affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the 29obedience of you all, how you received him with 30fear and trembling. 16I rejoice that in everything 31I have confidence in you.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 7:4 2 Cor 3:12 ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 7:4 Lit toward ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 7:4 2 Cor 7:14; 8:24; 9:2f; 10:8; Phil 1:26; 2 Thess 1:4 ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 7:4 2 Cor 1:4 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 7:4 2 Cor 6:10 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 7:5 Rom 15:26; 2 Cor 2:13 ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 7:5 2 Cor 4:8 ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 7:5 Deut 32:25 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 7:6 2 Cor 1:3f ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 7:6 Or humble ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 7:6 2 Cor 7:13 ↩
12. 2 Corinthians 7:6 2 Cor 2:13; 7:13f ↩
13. 2 Corinthians 7:8 2 Cor 2:2 ↩
14. 2 Corinthians 7:9 Lit from ↩
15. 2 Corinthians 7:10 Acts 11:18 ↩
16. 2 Corinthians 7:10 Or leading to a salvation without regret ↩
17. 2 Corinthians 7:11 Lit sorrow according to God ↩
18. 2 Corinthians 7:11 2 Cor 7:7 ↩
19. 2 Corinthians 7:11 2 Cor 2:6 ↩
20. 2 Corinthians 7:11 Rom 3:5 ↩
21. 2 Corinthians 7:12 2 Cor 2:3, 9; 7:8 ↩
22. 2 Corinthians 7:12 1 Cor 5:1f ↩
23. 2 Corinthians 7:13 2 Cor 7:6 ↩
24. 2 Corinthians 7:13 2 Cor 2:13; 7:6, 14 ↩
25. 2 Corinthians 7:13 1 Cor 16:18 ↩
26. 2 Corinthians 7:14 2 Cor 7:4; 8:24; 9:2f; 10:8; Phil 1:26; 2 Thess 1:4 ↩
27. 2 Corinthians 7:14 2 Cor 2:13; 7:6, 13 ↩
28. 2 Corinthians 7:15 Lit inward parts ↩
29. 2 Corinthians 7:15 2 Cor 2:9 ↩
30. 2 Corinthians 7:15 1 Cor 2:3; Phil 2:12 ↩
31. 2 Corinthians 7:16 2 Cor 2:3 ↩

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