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2 Corinthians 7:14

James Moffatt - New Testament

I told him of my pride in you, and I have not been disappointed. No, just as all I have had to say to you has been true, so all I said about you to Titus, all my pride in you, has also proved true.

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So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.

So let them have proof of how you can love, and of my reasons for being proud of you; it will be a proof read by the churches.

I have absolute confidence in you, I am indeed proud of you, you are a perfect comfort to me, I am overflowing with delight, for all the trouble I have to bear.

Even supposing I were to boast somewhat freely of my authority (and the Lord gave it to me for building you up, not for demolishing you), I would feel quite justified.

But the God who comforts the dejected comforted me by the arrival of Titus.

and for their sake I consecrate myself that they may be consecrated by the truth.

my spirit could not rest, because I did not find Titus my brother there; so I said goodbye and went off to Macedonia.

That is what comforts me. And over and above my personal comfort, I was specially delighted at the delight of Titus. You have all set his mind at rest.

(If I did care to boast of other things, I would be no 'fool,' for I would have a true tale to tell; however, I abstain from that — I want no one to take me for more than he can see in me or make out from me.)

Thus you will have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus over me — over my return to you.




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