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, whataclearing 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, Idid not doit 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.
14 For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I am not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting to Titus was found true.
II Corinthians 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing. Here is proof that they "sorrowed after a godly sort". They repented and brought forth the fruits of repentance. What carefulness it wrought in you. No indifference any longer. [What] clearing of yourselves. From all responsibility for the sins of the incestuous person (I Corinthians 5:1 2Co 2:6-8). [What] indignation. Against the deed that disgraced the church. [What] revenge. What punishment of the offense committed.
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