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\subsection{II Corinthians 7 }
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\VS{1} So having therefore these promises, agape-beloved, let us cleanse ourselves
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from every defilement of flesh and spirit, completing holiness in fear of
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God.
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\VS{2} Make room for us; we have done no one injustice, we have
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corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.
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\VS{3} I say [this] not for
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condemnation, for I have told you before, that you are in our hearts to be
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co-dying and co-living.
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\VS{4} Great boldness [is] to me towards you, great
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boasting is to me concerning you, I am filled with comfort, I am overflowed
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with joy upon all our afflictions.
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\VS{5} For we having come to Macedonia,
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our flesh had no rest, but being afflicted in everything, strife without,
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fear within.
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\VS{6} But the [one] comforting the humble, [namely] God, comforted us by
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the coming of Titus.
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\VS{7} But not only by his coming, but also by the
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comfort by which he was comforted by you, reporting to us your longing, your
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lamentation, your zeal in our behalf, so that I rather rejoiced.
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\VS{8} For
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if I pained you with the letter, I do not regret [it], and if I were regretting,
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I see that though that letter pained you for [an] hour,
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\VS{9} now I rejoice,
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not that you were pained, but that you were pained to repentance. For you
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were pained according to God, in order that you suffer loss\fnZemioo{} from us in
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nothing.
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\VS{10} For the pain according to God works repentance to salvation
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without regret, but the pain of this world works death.
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\VS{11} For behold
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this same [thing], to be pained according to God, how great [an] earnestness it worked
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in you, indeed defense, indeed indignation, indeed fear, indeed longing,
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indeed zeal, indeed vengeance. In everything you have commended yourselves
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to be pure in the matter.
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\VS{12} Therefore though I wrote to you, [it is] not on
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account of [one] having done injustice, nor on account of the [one] having been done
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injustice, but on account [of your] earnestness concerning us having been manifested
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before God.
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\VS{13} Because of this we were comforted. And by your comfort
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we rather exceedingly more rejoiced upon the joy of Titus, because his
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spirit was rested by you all.
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\VS{14} For if I have boasted anything to him
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concerning you, I was not shamed, but as everything I spoke to you in truth,
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thus also our boast to Titus became truth.
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\VS{15} And his
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guts\footnote{i.e. ``feelings''} for you are abundantly more, [he] remembering
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all your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
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\VS{16} I
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rejoice that in everything I am confident in you.
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