2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed in order to repentance. For you sorrowed in a way acceptable to God, that you might in nothing receive injury from us.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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Luke 15:7I say to you, That thus there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons, who need no repentance.
Luke 15:17But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger!
Acts 20:21bearing full testimony both to Jews and to Greeks, of the repentance that leads to God, and of the faith that leads to our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:16to the one, we are the odor of death ending in death; to the other, the odor of life ending in life: and who is sufficient for these things?
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 7:6-12
Various Exhortations. ( a. d. 57.) 5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. 6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; 7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. 8 For though I made you sorry with a letter,… Read the whole commentary →