2 Corinthians 7:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Yet I am glad now, not because you were pained, but because you were pained into repentance [and so turned back to God]; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that in nothing you might suffer loss through us or harm for what we did.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Common English Bible

⁹ Now I’m glad—not because you were sad but because you were made sad enough to change your hearts and lives. You felt godly sadness so that no one was harmed by us in any way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ now I am glad: not because you were sorrowful, but because you were sorrowful unto repentance. For you became sorrowful for God, so that you might not suffer any harm from us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

2 Corinthians 7:9 Cross References

Psalm 38:18

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.

Zechariah 12:10

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Matthew 3:8

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

Luke 15:10

Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

Luke 15:32

But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:7

I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, which need no repentance.

Acts 20:21

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one a savour from death unto death; to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 7:8

For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it, though I did regret; for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season.