Chapter 7.
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.
Receive us, we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have
defrauded no man.
I speak not this to condemn you, for I have said before that ye are in our
hearts to die and live with you.
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.
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.
Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the
coming of Titus, 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.
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent,
for I perceived that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a
season.
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.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of,
but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
For behold the selfsame 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.
Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done
wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the
sight of God might appear unto you.
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.
For if I have boasted anything 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.
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.
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
This ends Disc 11.