2 Corinthians 7:11

2 Corinthians 7:11

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.

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.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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This selfsame thing (auto touto). "This very thing," "the being made sorry according to God" (to kata qeon luphqhnai, articular first aorist passive infinitive with which auto touto agrees and the proleptic subject of the verb kateirgasato.

Earnest care (spoudhn). Diligence, from speudw, to hasten. Cf. Romans 12:11.

Yea (alla). Not adversative use of alla, but copulative as is common (half dozen examples here).

Clearing of yourselves (apologia). In the old notion of apologia (self-vindication, self-defence) as in I Peter 3:15.

Indignation (aganakthsin). Old word, only here in N.T. From aganakteo (Mark 10:14, etc.).

Avenging (ekdikhsin). Late word from ekdikew, to avenge, to do justice (Luke 18:5; Luke 21:22), vindication from wrong as in Luke 18:7, to secure punishment (I Peter 2:14).

Pure (agnouv). Kin to agiov (azw, to reverence), immaculate.

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1 Thessalonians 4:6
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