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2 Corinthians 7:9

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9Now I rejoice, vnot that ye were made sorry, but vthat ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry ||after a godly manner, that ye might wreceive damage by us in nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. vSo Ps. 38:18.
  2. vSo Ps. 38:18.
  3. ||Or, according to God. Gk. as ver. 10, 11. Rom. 8:27. Eph. 4:24. 1 Pet. 4:6.
  4. wSee Luke 9:25.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I now rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God willed, so that you didn’t experience any loss from us.

NLTNew Living Translation

Now I am glad I sent it, not because it hurt you, but because the pain caused you to repent and change your ways. It was the kind of sorrow God wants his people to have, so you were not harmed by us in any way.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to the will of God, so that you suffered loss in no way through us.