2 Corinthians 7

Therefore, beloved, having these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. \*

Make room for us! We wronged no one; we ruined no one; we took advantage of no one.

I do not speak for your condemnation; for I have already said that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

Great {is} my confidence in you; great {is} my boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with encouragement. I overflow with this joy in all our afflictions. \*

For even having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relief at all, but {we were} being afflicted in every {way}—conflicts without, fears within.

But God, the one comforting the humble, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, reporting to us your longing, your mourning, {and} your zeal for my sake, so that I was caused to rejoice even more. \*

For even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret {it}. Even if I was regretting {it} (I see that that letter grieved you, if only for an hour),

now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to {the point of} repentance. For you were grieved with respect to God, so that you would not suffer loss in anything through us.

For the sorrow with respect to God works repentance towards salvation without regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death. \*

For behold how much earnestness this same thing produced in you, to be made sorrowful with respect to God: what defense, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, {and} what vindication! In everything you proved yourselves to be pure in this matter.

So even though I wrote to you, {it was} not for the sake of the one having done wrong, nor for the sake of the one having suffered wrong, but so that your earnestness which {is} on our behalf might be revealed to you before God. \*

Because of this we have been encouraged. Now in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more abundantly at the joy of Titus, because his spirit had been refreshed by all of you.

For if I had boasted anything to him about you, I was not ashamed, but as we spoke everything to you in truth, in the same way also our boasting became the truth to Titus. \*

And his affections towards you are more abundant, remembering the obedience of all of you, how you received him with fear and trembling.

I rejoice that in everything I am confident in you. \*