13 Because of this we have been encouraged, and in addition to our encouragement, we rejoiced much more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit had been refreshed by all of you. 14 For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I have not been put to shame, but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, thus also our boasting to Titus has proven to be true[a]. 15 And his affection for you is all the more when he[b] remembers the obedience of all of you as you welcomed him with fear and trembling. 16 I rejoice, because in everything I am completely confident in you.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 7:14 Literally “has become truth”
  2. 2 Corinthians 7:15 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“remembers”) which is understood as temporal