New Testament · Letters

2 Corinthians chapter 7

So since we have these , people I love, let’s clean out everything that us, and , and finish the work of , out of deep respect for God. in your hearts. We haven’t wronged anyone, we haven’t ruined anyone, we haven’t anyone.I’m not saying this to blame you — I already told you that you’re , so deeply that we’d with you.I have so much in you. I’m so proud of you. I’m completely filled with . Even in the middle of all our , my .When we arrived in , we got no relief at all — we were . Conflicts on the outside, fears on the inside.But God, who people who are , lifted us up through arriving.And not just by his arrival, but also by the encouragement you gave him. He told us how much you us, how you are, how you are to me — and that made me even happier.Because even if my , I don’t regret it — though I did regret it at first. I can see that letter hurt you, but only for a while.Now I’m glad — not that you were hurt, but that your pain led you to . You experienced , so you weren’t damaged by us at all.Because produces a that leads to — and you’ll never regret that. But leads to .Just look at what this God-aligned pain produced in you: what , what eagerness to , what , what , what longing, what passion, what determination to see . At every point you proved yourselves to be in the clear on this matter.So even though I wrote to you, it wasn’t really about , and it wasn’t about the one who was wronged. It was so that your to us would become clear to you — right there .That’s why we’ve been so . And on top of our own encouragement, we were even more thrilled by how happy Titus was, because all of you .If I had about you to him at all, I wasn’t let down. Just as everything we told you was true, our boasting about you to Titus turned out to be true too.And his for you grows even deeper when he remembers how all of you listened, and how you welcomed him with such .I’m so that I can have in you.