2 Corinthians 7:1-9 ▼

1 Therefore having these promises, beloved, we should cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

2 Make room for us. We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.

3 I do not speak for condemnation; for I have before said that you? are in our hearts for us to die together and to live together.

4 Much is my boldness toward you?; much is my boasting on behalf of you?; I have been filled with encouragement; I overabound with joy upon all our tribulation.

5 For also of our having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest; but we are being pressed in every way: conflicts on the outside, fears within.

6 But God, the One comforting the downcast, comforted us in the coming of Titus,

7 and not only in his coming, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you?, declaring to us your? longing, your? mourning, your? zeal for me, so as for me to rejoice the more.

8 For if also I grieved you? in the letter, I do not regret it—even if I did regret it; for I see that the letter grieved you?, that even if for an hour.

9 Now I rejoice, not that you? were grieved, but that you? were grieved unto repentance. For you? were grieved according to God, so that you? might suffer loss in nothing through us.