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◄ 2 Corinthians 7:9 ►

And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.

Chapter Outline

1. He proceeds in exhorting them to purity of life;
2. and to bear him like affection as he does to them.
3. Whereof lest he might seem to doubt, he declares what comfort he took in his afflictions
6. by the report which Titus gave of their godly sorrow,
8. which his former epistle had wrought in them;
13. and of their loving-kindness and obedience toward Titus, answerable to his former boastings of them.

Timeline

57 AD

Paul Writes again to the Corinthians

2 Corinthians 1 - 13

People

Corinthians, Paul, Titus

Places

Achaia, Corinth, Macedonia

Topics

Anything, Cause, Change, Damage, Felt, Glad, Godly, Grief, Grieved, Happy, Harmed, Heart, Holy, Injured, Injury, Intended, Led, Loss, Manner, Nothing, Point, Prevented, Receive, Receiving, Reformation, Rejoice, Repentance, Repenting, Respect, Sorrow, Sorrowed, Sorrowful, Sorry, Sort, Suffer, Suffered, Undergo, Yours

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Parallel Verses

NASB: I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.

KJV: 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.

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