2 Corinthians 7:9

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorrowful, but that your sorrow produced repentance. For the sorrow which ye felt had respect to God, that ye might in nothing receive injury from me.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

In Context

8For though I caused you sorrow with the letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I perceive that that letter caused you sorrow, though it was but for a short time.

10For sorrow before God worketh repentance to salvation never to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: “Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, Like a steer not broken. Turn thou me, and I shall be turned, For thou, O Jehovah, art my God!

Luke 15:7I say to you, that in like manner there will be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance.

Luke 15:17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

Acts 20:21testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 2:16to the latter we are the odor of death, producing death; and to the former the odor of life, producing 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 →

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