2 Corinthians 7:8
Even if I caused you pain by my letter, I do not regret; though I did regret it when I saw that my letter had caused you pain, even for a time.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
9But now I am glad; not because you were pained; but because your pain led you to repentance.
Cross References
Matthew 26:21and as they were eating, he said to them, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you is going to betray me!"
John 16:6"but sorrow has filled your hearts because I have told you these things.
2 Corinthians 2:2for if I cause you grief, who is there to cause me joy except those whom I have grieved?
2 Corinthians 7:11Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
Revelation 3:19All whom I love I reprove and discipline; therefore be full of zeal and repent.
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 →