2 Corinthians 7:9
I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;
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Ecclesiastes 7:3Better [is] sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.
Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, 'Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou [art] Jehovah my God.
Luke 15:7'I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.
Luke 15:17'And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!
Acts 20:21testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:16to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?
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 →