[2 Corinthians 7] ^7:1 Therefore, beloved, having these promises, we should cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, completing {Or: maturing} holiness in the fear of God.

 

             ^7:2 Make^° room for us in your^° hearts: we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took-advantage of no one. ^7:3 I am not saying this toward your^° condemnation; for^* I have said before, You^° are in our hearts, ^*that^* we may die together-with you^° and we may live together-with you^°. ^7:4 My boldness of speech toward you^° is much; my boasting on your^° behalf is much. I have been filled with the encouragement from you^°. I over-abound with the joy in all our affliction.

 

             ^7:5 For^* even after we went into Macedonia, our flesh still had not had any relief, but we were being afflicted in everything; outside were quarrels, inside were fears. ^7:6 But God is the one encouraging the humble, who encouraged us at the presence of Titus; ^7:7 and not only at his presence, but also at the encouragement to which he was encouraged in you^°, while reporting to us your^° longing, your^° anguish, your^° zeal on my behalf; so-then for me to rejoice even more. ^7:8 Because even if I made you^° sorrowful in the previous letter, I do not regret it; even if I was regretting it. For^* I see that, that letter made you^° sorrowful, even if ^*for a short-time. ^7:9 I now rejoice, not that you^° were made sorrowful, but that you^° were made sorrowful to repentance; for^* you^° were made sorrowful according-to the will of God in-order-that you^° might suffer-loss in nothing from us. ^7:10 For^* the sorrow which is according-to the will of God is working unregretted repentance ^*for salvation, but the sorrow of the world is working death. ^7:11 For^* behold how-much diligence this same thing (to be made sorrowful according-to the will of God) worked in you^°: but what a defense, but what indignation, but what fear, but what longing, but what zeal, but what vengeance! You^° commended yourselves in everything to be pure in the matter. ^7:12 Consequently^*, if I also wrote to you^°, it was not because of the one who had done-wrong, nor because of the one who was wronged, but because of your^° diligent-aid on our behalf to be made manifest to you^° in God’s sight. ^7:13 Because of this, now, we have been encouraged in your^° encouragement; we rejoiced even-more rather upon the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been given-rest from all of you^°. ^7:14 Because if I have boasted in anything on your^° behalf to him, I was not ashamed, but as we spoke all things to you^° in truth, so also, our boasting in Titus became truth. ^7:15 And his affections^* are even-more toward you^°, while remembering the obedience of all of you^°, how with fear and trembling you^° accepted him. ^7:16 I rejoice that in everything I have courage in you^°.