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I Am Rejoicing At Your Repentance And Actions After You Received My Letter

⁸ Because even though I grieved you by the letter^[a], I do not regret it. Even though I was regretting it (for I see that that letter grieved you, even though for an hour), ⁹ now I am rejoicing— not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved into repentance. For you were grieved in-accordance-with God, in order that you might suffer-loss in nothing by us. ¹⁰ For the grief in accordance with God works unregretted repentance leading-to salvation. But the grief of the world produces death. ¹¹ For behold this very thing— the being grieved in accordance with God— how much earnestness^[b] it produced in you; even a defense^[c], even indignation^[d], even fear, even yearning, even zeal, even punishment^[e]. In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter. ¹² So even though I wrote to you [causing grief], it was not^[f] for the sake of the one having done wrong, nor for the sake of the one having been wronged, but for the sake of making your earnestness for us evident to you in the sight of God. ¹³ For this reason, we have been comforted.

I Rejoiced Even More At The Joy of Titus Over You

But in addition to our comfort, we rejoiced even more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. ¹⁴ Because if I have boasted anything to him about you, I was not put-to-shame. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved-to-be the truth. ¹⁵ And his deep-feelings are especially for you, while remembering the obedience of you all— how you received him with fear and trembling. ¹⁶ I am rejoicing because in everything I am confident in you.