2 Corinthians Verse by verse (2)

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Cor. 7:8
f my letter made you uncomfortable, I’m not sorry. But since my letter did make you uncomfortable for a while, I was sorry.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Cor. 7:9
But I’m happy now, not because I made you uncomfortable, but because the distress I caused you has led you to change the way you think and act. You were distressed in a godly way, so we haven’t done you any harm

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Co.7:10
In fact, to be distressed in a godly way causes people to change the way they think and act and leads them to be saved. No one can regret that. But the distress that the world causes brings only death.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Cor.7:11
When you became distressed in a godly way, look at how much devotion it caused you to have. You were ready to clear yourselves of the charges against you. You were disgusted with the wrong that had been done. You were afraid. You wanted to see us. You wanted to show your concern for us. You were ready to punish the wrong that had been done. In every way you have demonstrated that you are people who are innocent in this matter.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 cor. 7:12
So, when I wrote to you, I didn’t write because of the man who did the wrong or the man who was hurt by it. Rather, I wrote because I wanted you to show your devotion to us in God’s sight.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Cor. 7:13
This is what has comforted us.In addition to being comforted, we were especially pleased to see how happy Titus was. All of you had put his mind at ease

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Cor. 7:14
I didn’t have to be ashamed of anything I had said to him when I bragged about you. Since everything we told you was true, our bragging to Titus has also proved to be true.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Cor. 7:15
His deepest feelings go out to you even more as he remembers how obedient all of you were, and how you welcomed him with fear and tremblin

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Cor.7:16
I’m pleased that I can be confident about you in every way.

 

[EdwinWillers]

2 Corinthians 2:1 Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

 

[EdwinWillers]

2 Corinthians 2:2 that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 corinthians 2:3
I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Corinthians 2:4
For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Corinthians 2:5
If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Corinthians 2:6
The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Corinthians 2:7
Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Corinthians 2:8
I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Corinthians 2:9
Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Corinthians 2:10
Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Corinthians 2:11
in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.