即使我在那封信中使你們憂傷,我也不後悔了;因為就算我後悔過——我知道那封信使你們憂傷,雖然只是暫時的—— 現在我還是感到歡喜。這並不是因為你們憂傷,而是因為你們憂傷以至於悔改。實際上,你們按神的意思[a]憂傷,使你們在任何事上都不會因我們而受到損失; 10 因為按神的意思[b]憂傷,就生出悔改通向救恩,是不懊悔的;可是屬世界的憂傷,卻帶來死亡。

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Footnotes

  1. 哥林多後書 7:9 的意思——輔助詞語。
  2. 哥林多後書 7:10 的意思——輔助詞語。

我曾為從前寫的那封信令你們憂傷而後悔,但現在不後悔了,因為我知道那封信令你們憂傷只是暫時的。 現在我很歡喜,當然不是因為你們憂傷而歡喜,而是看見你們因憂傷而悔改了。因為你們這樣憂傷合乎上帝的心意,使你們不致因我們而受到任何損失。 10 合乎上帝心意的憂傷會帶來悔改,使人得到救恩,永不後悔,但世俗的憂傷只會帶來死亡。

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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.

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.

10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

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