47:007:002 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man,
we have defrauded no man.
47:007:003 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that
ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
47:007:004 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.
47:007:005 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.
47:007:006 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
47:007:007 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.
47:007:008 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.
47:007:009 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.
47:007:010 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
47:007:011 For behold this 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.