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7 and not only by his coming, but also by the1 consolation with which he was comforted in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.  
8 For even if I made you asorry with my letter, I do not regret it; bthough I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while.  
9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.
10 For agodly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; bbut the sorrow of the world produces death.  
11 For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what aclearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be bclear in this matter.  
12 Therefore, although I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, abut that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.  

The Joy of Titus

13 Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit ahas been refreshed by you all.  
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2 Corinthians 7:9

Now I rejoice (nun xairw). Now that Titus has come and told him the good news from Corinth (II Corinthians 2:12 f.). This was the occasion of the noble outburst in 2Co. 2:12-6:10.

Unto repentance (eiv metanoian). Note the sharp difference here between "sorrow" (luph) which is merely another form of metamelomai (regret, remorse) and "repentance" (metanoia) or change of mind and life. It is a linguistic and theological tragedy that we have to go on using "repentance" for metanoia. But observe that the "sorrow" has led to "repentance" and was not Itself the repentance.

After a godly sort (kata qeon). In God's way. "God's way as opposed to man's way and the devil's way" (Plummer). It was not mere sorrow, but a change in their attitude that counted.

That ye might suffer loss by us in nothing (ina en mhdeni zhmiwqhte ec umwn). Purpose clause with ina and first aorist passive subjunctive of zhmiow, old verb to suffer damage. See on Matthew 16:26. This was God's intention and so he overruled their sorrow to good.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Corinthians 7:9:

Matthew 21:29
Matthew 27:3
Romans 8:27
2 Corinthians 2:3
2 Corinthians 7:10
Titus 1:4
1 John 4:10

 

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