2 Corinthians 7 Having, then, these promises, beloved, we should be cleansing ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, completing holiness in the fear of God."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Having, then, these promises, beloved, we should be cleansing ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, completing holiness in the fear of God." ² Make room for us. We injure no one; we corrupt no one; we overreach no one. ³ I am not saying this with a view to condemnation, for I have declared before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together." ⁴ Much is my boldness toward you; much is my boasting over you, I am filled full with consolation, ⁵ I am superexceeding in joy in all our affliction. For even at our coming into Macedonia, our flesh has no ease, but we are afflicted in everything: outside fightings; inside fears." ⁶ But God, Who is consoling the humble, consoles us by the presence of Titus, ⁷ yet not only by his presence, but by the consolation also with which he was consoled over you, informing us of your longing, your anguish, your zeal for my sake; so that I rather rejoice that, ⁸ even if I make you sorry by an epistle, I am not regretting it, even if I did regret. For I am observing that that epistle makes you sorry, even if it is for an hour." ⁹ Now I am rejoicing, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry according to God, that in nothing you may suffer forfeit by us." ¹⁰ For sorrow according to God is producing repentance for unregretted salvation, yet the sorrow of the world is producing death." ¹¹ For lo! this same thing-for you to made sorry according to God - how much it produces in you of diligence, nay, defense, nay, resentment, nay, fear, nay, longing, nay, zeal, nay, avenging! In everything you commend yourselves to be pure in this matter." ¹² Consequently, even if I write to you, it is not on account of the one who injures, but neither on account of the one being injured, but on account of manifesting to you your diligence for our sake in God's sight." ¹³ Therefore we are consoled, yet in our consolation we rather rejoiced more exceedingly in the joy of Titus, for his spirit has been soothed by you all, ¹⁴ for, if I have boasted any to him over you, I was not disgraced, but as we speak all in truth to you, thus also our boasting before Titus came to be truth." ¹⁵ And his compassions for you are superabundantly more, having a recollection of the obedience of you all, as, with fear and trembling, you receive him." ¹⁶ I am rejoicing that in everything I am encouraged in you.