to your condemnation. For we have said before that
you are in our hearts: to die together and to live together.

7:4. Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you. I am
filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our
tribulation.

7:5. For also, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest:
but we suffered all tribulation. Combats without: fears within.

7:6. But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of
Titus.

7:7. And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith
he was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning, your
zeal for me: so that I rejoiced the more.

7:8. For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent.
And if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a
time) did make you sorrowful,

7:9. Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you
were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according
to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing.

7:10. For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast
unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

7:11. For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful
according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you: yea defence,
yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge. In all
things you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter.

7:12. Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that
did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our
carefulness that we have for you.

7:13. Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation we
did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit
was refreshed by you all.

7:14. And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put
to shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our
boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth.

7:15. And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the
obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.

7:16. I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you.

2 Corinthians Chapter 8

He exhorts them to contribute bountifully to relieve the poor of
Jerusalem.

8:1. Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath
been given in the churches of Macedonia.

8:2. That in much experience of tribulation