II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER VII.

HAVING therefore these promises, dearly 
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness 
of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in 
the fear of God. 
2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have 
corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. 
3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have 
said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live 
with you. 
4 Great is, my boldness of speech toward you,
great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, 
I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. 
5 For when we were come into Macedonia, our 
flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every 
side; without were fightings, within were fears. 
6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that 
are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation 
wherewith he was comforted in you, when 
he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your 
fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the 
more. 
8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I 
do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive
that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though 
it were but for a season. 
9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, 
but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were
made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might 
receive damage by us in nothing. 
10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation
not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the 
world worketh death. 
11 For behold this self-same thing, that ye sorrowed 
after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in 
you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation,
yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, 
yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye 
have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 
12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it 
not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for 
his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for 
you in the sight of God might appear unto you. 
13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort:
yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy 
of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 
14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, 
I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to 
you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made
before Titus, is found a truth. 
15 And his inward affection is more abundant
toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience 
of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. 
16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in 
you in all things.