2 Corinthians 7

1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.Cross-references: 2Chr 19:9 · Ps 19:9 · Ps 51:10 · Ps 119:9 · Prov 8:13 · Prov 16:6 · +36 more

2Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.Cross-references: Num 16:15 · 1Sam 12:3 · Matt 10:14 · Matt 10:40 · Luke 10:8 · Acts 20:33 · +17 more

3I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.Cross-references: Ruth 1:16 · 1Cor 4:14 · 2Cor 2:4 · 2Cor 3:2 · 2Cor 6:11 · 2Cor 7:12 · +5 more

4Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.Cross-references: Acts 5:41 · Rom 5:3 · 1Cor 1:4 · 2Cor 1:4 · 2Cor 1:14 · 2Cor 2:14 · +15 more

5For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.Cross-references: Gen 8:9 · Deut 32:25 · Job 18:11 · Isa 33:12 · Jer 6:25 · Jer 8:18 · +16 more

6Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,Cross-references: Isa 12:1 · Isa 51:12 · Isa 57:15 · Isa 57:18 · Isa 61:1 · Jer 31:13 · +12 more

7and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.Cross-references: Judg 2:4 · Ps 6:1 · Ps 30:5 · Ps 31:9 · Ps 38:18 · Ps 51:1 · +24 more

8For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.Cross-references: Ex 5:22 · Jer 20:7 · Lam 3:32 · Matt 26:21 · Luke 22:61 · John 16:6 · +6 more

9I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.Cross-references: Ps 38:18 · Eccl 7:3 · Isa 6:9 · Jer 31:18 · Zech 12:10 · Luke 15:7 · +10 more

10For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.Cross-references: Gen 4:13 · Gen 30:1 · 1Sam 30:6 · 2Sam 12:13 · 2Sam 13:4 · 2Sam 17:23 · +23 more

11For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.Cross-references: Gen 44:6 · 2Sam 12:5 · Neh 5:6 · Neh 13:25 · Job 42:6 · Ps 2:11 · +44 more

12So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.Cross-references: 1Cor 5:1 · 2Cor 2:3 · 2Cor 2:9 · 2Cor 2:17 · 2Cor 7:8 · 2Cor 11:11 · +2 more

13Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.Cross-references: Rom 12:15 · Rom 15:32 · 1Cor 12:26 · 1Cor 13:5 · 1Cor 16:13 · 2Cor 2:3 · +7 more

14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.Cross-references: 2Cor 1:18 · 2Cor 7:4 · 2Cor 7:6 · 2Cor 8:24 · 2Cor 9:2 · 2Cor 10:8 · +1 more

15His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.Cross-references: Gen 43:30 · 1Ki 3:26 · Ezra 9:4 · Ezra 10:9 · Job 21:6 · Ps 2:11 · +15 more

16I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.Cross-references: 2Cor 2:3 · 2Thess 3:4 · Phlm 1:8 · Phlm 1:21