2 Corinthians 7:9

Modern King James Version

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

Cross References

Luke 15:7

I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Acts 20:21

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

Ecclesiastes 7:3

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

Psalm 38:18

For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one we are the savor of death to death, and to the other we are the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity; not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God; we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Luke 15:10

Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

Zechariah 12:10

And I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born.

Luke 15:32

It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Matthew 3:8

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance;

2 Corinthians 7:8

For even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret; if indeed I did regret; for I see that that letter grieved you for an hour.