2 Corinthians 7
7:1Having then these promises, beloved, we should cleanse ourselves from all contamination of the flesh and spirit, complete holiness in fear of God.
7:2Have space for us; no one we wronged, no one we corrupted, no one we took advantage of.
7:3I speak not for condemnation; for I have described beforehand that you are in our hearts for the dying together and living together.
7:4Great is it to me to be in an open manner with you, great is it to me in boasting over you. I have been filled with comfort; I superabound in joy at all our affliction.
7:5For even our coming into Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but in every way being afflicted; from outside -- battles; from inside -- fears.
7:6But the one comforting the humble, comforts us -- God, by the arrival of Titus.
7:7But not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort in which he was comforted by you, announcing to us your longing, your grieving, your zeal for me; so as for me more to rejoice.
7:8For if even I grieved you in the letter, I do not repent, if even I repented; for I see that that letter, if even for an hour, that it grieved you.
7:9Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved into repentance. For you were grieved according to God, that in nothing you should suffer loss by us.
7:10For distress manufactures an irrevocable repentance towards God unto deliverance; but the distress of the world manufactures death.
7:11For behold, this same thing you fretted towards God, how much it manufactured in you -- diligence, but defense, but indignation, but fear, but longing, but zeal, but punishment. In every way you commended yourselves to be pure in the matter.
7:12Then if even I wrote to you, it was not because of the one doing wrong, nor because of the one being wronged; but because of the manifesting our diligence, the one for you, to you before God.
7:13On account of this we have been comforted over your comfort; but more exceedingly rather we rejoiced at the joy of Titus, that his spirit has been put at rest by all of you.
7:14For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not disgraced; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting unto Titus became truth.
7:15And his feelings of compassion are more exceedingly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of all of you, as with fear and trembling you received him.
7:16I rejoice that in everything I take courage in you.