2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I made you sorie with a letter, I repent not, though I did repent: for I perceiue that the same epistle made you sorie, though it were but for a season.
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Jeremiah 20:7O Lord, thou hast deceiued me, and I am deceiued: thou art stronger then I, and hast preuailed: I am in derision daily: euery one mocketh me.
Matthew 26:21And as they did eate, he sayde, Verely I say vnto you, that one of you shall betraie me.
John 16:6But because I haue saide these thinges vnto you, your hearts are full of sorowe.
2 Corinthians 2:2For if I make you sorie, who is he then that shoulde make me glad, but ye same which is made sorie by me?
2 Corinthians 7:11For beholde, this thing that ye haue bene godly sory, what great care it hath wrought in you: yea, what clearing of yourselues: yea, what indignation: yea, what feare: yea, howe great desire: yea, what a zeale: yea, what reuenge: in all things ye haue shewed your selues, that ye are pure in this matter.
Revelation 3:19As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and amend.
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 →