2 Corinthians 7:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

Cross References

Psalm 38:18

I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

Zechariah 12:10

And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

Matthew 3:8

Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

Luke 15:10

Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.

Luke 15:32

But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

Luke 15:7

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

Acts 20:21

Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

2 Corinthians 7:8

For though my letter gave you pain, I have no regret for it now, though I had before; for I see that the letter gave you pain, but only for a time.