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2 Corinthians 7

1 He exhorteth them by the promises of God to keep them selves pure, 3 7 Assuring them of his love, 8 13 And doeth not excuse his severity toward them, but rejoyceth thereat, considering what profit came thereby. 10 Of two sorts of sorrow.
1.Seeing then we have these promises, dearly beloved, let us acleanse our selves from all filthiness of the bflesh and spirit, and grow up unto full holiness in the fear of God.
2.cReceive us: we have done wrong to no man: we have consumed no man: we have ddefrauded no man.
3.I speak it not to your condemnation: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts, to die and live together.
4.I use great boldness of speech toward you: I rejoice greatly in you: I am filled with comfort, and am exceeding joyous in all our tribulation.
5.For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side, fightings ewithout, and terrors within.
6.But God, that comforteth the abject, comforted us at the coming of Titus:
7.And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you, when he told us your great desire, your mourning, your fervent mind to meward, so that I rejoiced fmuch more.
8.For though I made you sorry with a letter, I repent not, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
9.I now rejoice, not that ye were sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye sorrowed godly, so that in nothing ye were hurt by us.
10.*For godly sorrow causeth repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of: but the worldly sorrow causeth death.
11.For behold, this thing that ye have been ggodly sorry, what great care it hath wrought in you: yea, what hclearing of your selves: yea what indignation: yea, what fear: yea, how great desire: yea, what a zeal: yea, what ipunishment: in all things ye have shewed your selves, that ye are pure in this matter.
12.Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did not it for his cause that had done the wrong, neither for his cause that had the injury, but that our care toward you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
13.Therefore we were comforted, because ye were comforted: but rather we rejoiced much more for the joy of Titus, because his ^spirit was refreshed by you all.
14.For if that I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been ashamed: but as I have spoken unto you all things in truth, even so our boasting unto Titus was true.
15.And khis inward affection is more abundant toward you, when he remembreth the obedience of you all, and how with fear and trembling ye received him.
16.I rejoice therefore that I may lput my confidence in you in all things.

Notes

1-a.
Consider this well, ye that serve idols with your bodies, and yet think your consciences pure toward God: God will one day smite you for your halting.
1-b.
Of body and soul.
2-c.
That we may teach you.
2-d.
By greedy covetousness.
5-e.
He had neither rest in body, nor spirit, and it seems that he alludes to that which is written, Deut. 32.25, for the cross to man’s eye is common both to the godly & to the wicked, although to contrary ends.
7-f.
This joy overcame all my sorrows.
10-*.
1 Pet. 2.19.
11-g.
Whose heart God’s Spirit does touch, he is sorry for his sins committed against so merciful a Father: and these are the fruits of his repentance, as witness David’s and Peter’s tears: others which are sorry for their sins only for fear of punishment and God’s vengeance, fall into desperation, as Cain, Saul, Achitophel and Judas.
11-h.
In asking God forgiveness.
11-i.
For in judging and chastising yourselves, you prevented God’s anger.
13-^.
Heart.
15-k.
The Greek word signifies, his bowels, whereby is meant most great love and tender affections.
16-l.
Both in thinking and reporting well of you.