{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/2-corinthians/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T08:29:24.309Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":7,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sactification in the fear of God. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Receive us. We have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have overreached no man. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before, that you are in our hearts, to die together, and to live together. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Great is my confidence for you, great is my glorying for you. I am filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For also when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we suffered all tribulation; combats without, fears within. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation, wherewith he was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent; and if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a time) did make you sorrowful; "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful; but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you; yea defence, yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge: in all things you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that I did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it; but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation, we did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And his bowels are more abundantly towards you; remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you have received him. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you. "}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 7 (DRB)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 7](https://primebible.com/drb/2-corinthians/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/2-corinthians/7 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}