2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle has made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
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Jeremiah 20:7O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocks me.
Matthew 26:21And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
John 16:6But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow has filled your heart.
2 Corinthians 2:2For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
2 Corinthians 7:11For behold this very same thing, that all of you sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things all of you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, 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 →