2 Corinthians 7:9

Now I rejoice, not that ye have been made sorrowful, but that ye have sorrowed unto repentance; for ye have been made sorry in a godly manner, that ye might receive damage from us in nothing.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 if I grieved you by a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that this letter made you sorry, though but for a season.

10For sorrow of a godly sort worketh repentance unto salvation never to be repented of, but worldly sorrow worketh death.

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Cross References

Luke 15:7I tell you, that just so will there be joy in heaven over one repentant sinner, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons, who hold not their need of repentance.

Luke 15:17Then coming to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father abound with loaves of bread, and I am pining away with famine!

Acts 20:21repeatedly urging both on Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:16To the one we are the odour of death unto death, to the other the odour of life unto 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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