2 Corinthians 7:9

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Cross References

Psalm 38:18

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

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

Zechariah 12:10

I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!

Luke 15:10

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.*

Luke 15:32

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'*

Luke 15:7

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Acts 20:21

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

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting 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 toward you.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 7:8

For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.