2 Corinthians 7:1-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

7 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

² Receive us. We have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have overreached no man.

³ I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before, that you are in our hearts, to die together, and to live together.

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.

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

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

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.

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;

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.

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