2Corinthians:7:2-16

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* Receive us ; we have wronged no man , we have corrupted no man , we have defrauded no man . * I speak not this to condemn you : for I have said before , that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you . * Great is my boldness of speech toward you , great is my glorying of you : I am filled with comfort , I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation . * 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 . * Nevertheless God , that comforteth those that are cast down , comforted us by the coming of Titus ; * 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 . * For though I made you sorry with a letter , I do not repent , though I did repent : for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry , though it were but for a season . * 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 . * For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of : but the sorrow of the world worketh death . * For behold this selfsame thing , that ye 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 ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter . * Wherefore , though I wrote unto you , I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong , nor for his cause that suffered wrong , but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you . * Therefore we were comforted in your comfort : yea , and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus , because his spirit was refreshed by you all . * For if I have boasted any thing to him of you , I am not ashamed ; but as we spake all things to you in truth , even so our boasting , which I made before Titus , is found a truth . * And his inward affection is more abundant toward you , whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all , how with fear and trembling ye received him . * I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things .

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