2Corinthians:7:2-16

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* Receive us : we have injured no one , we have ruined no one , we have made gain of no one . * I do not speak for condemnation , for I have already said that ye are in our hearts , to die together , and live together . * Great [is ] my boldness towards you , great my exulting in respect of you ; I am filled with encouragement ; I overabound in joy under all our affliction . * For indeed , when we came into Macedonia , our flesh had no rest , but [we were ] afflicted in every way ; without combats , within fears . * But he who encourages those that are [brought ] low , [even ] God , encouraged us by the coming of Titus ; * and not by his coming only , but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you ; relating to us your ardent desire , your mourning , your zeal for me ; so that I the more rejoiced . * For if also I grieved you in the letter , I do not regret [it ], if even I have regretted it ; for I see that that letter , if even [it were ] only for a time , grieved you . * Now I rejoice , not that ye have been grieved , but that ye have been grieved to repentance ; for ye have been grieved according to God , that in nothing ye might be injured by us . * For grief according to God works repentance to salvation , never to be regretted ; but the grief of the world works death . * For , behold , this same thing , your being grieved according to God , how much diligence it wrought in you , but [what ] excusing [of yourselves ], but [what ] indignation , but [what ] fear , but [what ] ardent desire , but [what ] zeal , but [what ] vengeance : in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter . * So then , if also I wrote to you , [it was ] not for the sake of him that injured , nor for the sake of him that was injured , but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God . * For this reason we have been encouraged . And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus , because his spirit has been refreshed by you all . * Because if I boasted to him anything about you , I have not been put to shame ; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth , so also our boasting to Titus has been [the ] truth ; * and his affections are more abundantly towards you , calling to mind the obedience of you all , how with fear and trembling ye received him . * I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you .

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