2 Corinthians 7:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For even if I grieved you with my letter,  I don’t regret it. And if I regretted it #– #since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a while #– #

Cross References

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline.   So be zealous and repent.

2 Corinthians 7:11

For consider how much diligence this very thing #– #this grieving as God wills #– #has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure  in this matter.

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who comforts the downcast,  comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

John 21:17

He asked him the third time, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love   me? ’ Peter was grieved  that he asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me? ’ He said, ‘Lord, you know everything;  you know that I love you.’ ‘Feed   my sheep,’ Jesus said.

John 16:6

Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

Lamentations 3:32

Even if he causes suffering, he will show compassion according to the abundance of his faithful love.

2 Corinthians 7:7

and not only by his arrival but also by the comfort he received from you. He told us about your deep longing, your sorrow, and your zeal  for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

2 Corinthians 7:9

I now rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God willed, so that you didn’t experience any loss from us.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So even though I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong, or because of the one who was wronged, but in order that your devotion to us might be made plain to you in the sight of God.