⁸ For though I ^(A)caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while— ⁹ I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance. For you were made to have ^[a]godly sorrow, so that you might not suffer loss in anything ^[b]through us. ¹⁰ For ^[c]godly sorrow produces a ^(B)repentance ^[d]without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world brings about death. ¹¹ For behold what earnestness this very thing—this ^[e]godly sorrow—has brought about in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what ^(C)longing, what zeal, what ^(D)avenging of wrong! In everything you ^(E)demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter. ¹² So although ^(F)I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of ^(G)the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God. ¹³ For this reason we have been ^(H)comforted.

And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of ^(I)Titus, because his ^(J)spirit has been refreshed by you all.