2 Corinthians 7:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For though I made you sorie with a letter, I repent not, though I dyd repent. For I perceaue, that the same epistle made you sorie, though it were but for a season.

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  • Exod 5:22-23 : 22 Moyses returned vnto the Lorde, and sayd: Lorde, wherfore hast thou so euyll intreated this people? And wherfore hast thou sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharao to speake in thy name, he hath fared foule with this folke, and yet thou hast not deliuered thy people at all.
  • Jer 20:7-9 : 7 O Lord, if I am deceaued, then hast thou deceaued me, thou enforcedst me, and hast preuayled: dayly am I despised and laughed to scorne of euery man. 8 For since I began to preache, I cryed out against violencie, and exclamed against oppression: for the whiche cause they cast the worde of the Lorde in my teeth, to my reproche continually. 9 Wherefore I thought from hencefoorth not to speake of hym, nor to preache any more in his name: but the worde of the Lorde was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, whiche when I woulde haue stopped, I might not.
  • Lam 3:32 : 32 But though he punishe, yet according to the multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne.
  • Matt 26:21-22 : 21 And as they dyd eate, he sayde: Ueryly I say vnto you, that one of you shall betray me. 22 And they were exceadyng sorowfull, and began euery one of them to say vn hym, Lorde is it I?
  • Luke 22:61-62 : 61 And the Lorde turned backe, & loked vpon Peter: And Peter remembred the worde of the Lorde, howe he hadde sayde vnto hym, before the Cocke crowe thou shalt denie me thrise. 62 And Peter went out, & wept bitterlye.
  • John 16:6 : 6 But because I haue saide such thinges vnto you, your heartes are ful of sorow.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He sayde vnto hym the thirde tyme: Simon Ioanna, louest thou me? Peter was sory, because he sayde vnto hym the thirde tyme, louest thou me: And he sayde vnto hym, Lorde thou knowest all thynges, thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus sayth vnto hym: feede my sheepe.
  • 2 Cor 2:2-9 : 2 For if I make you sorie, who is he yt shoulde make me glad, but the same which is made sorie by me? 3 And I wrote this same vnto you, lest when I came, I shoulde take heauynesse of them of whom I ought to reioyce. This confidence haue I toward you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all. 4 For in great affliction and anguishe of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that ye shoulde be made sorie, but that ye myght perceaue the loue which I haue, most specially vnto you. 5 But yf any man hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made me sorie, but partly, lest I shoulde greeue you all. 6 It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many. 7 So that nowe contrarywise, ye ought rather to forgeue hym, and comforte hym, lest that same person shoulde be swallowed vp with ouermuche heauynesse. 8 Wherfore I pray you, that you would confirme your loue towardes hym. 9 For this cause veryly did I write, that I myght knowe the profe of you, whether ye be obedient in all thynges. 10 To whom ye forgeue any thyng, I forgeue also. For if I forgaue any thing, to whom I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it, in the sight of Christe. 11 Lest Satan shoulde circumuent vs: For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.
  • 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 Neuerthelesse, God that comforteth the humble, comforted vs by the commyng of Titus.
  • 2 Cor 7:11 : 11 For beholde this thing, what carefulnesse this godly sorow that ye toke, hath wrought in you: yea what clearing of your selues, yea what indignation, yea what feare, yea what vehemet desire, yea what zeale, yea what punishment. For in all thynges ye haue shewed your selues that ye were cleare in ye matter.
  • Heb 12:9-9 : 9 Furthermore, we haue had fathers of our fleshe, which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: Shall we not then much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, and lyue? 10 For they veryly, for a fewe dayes, chastened vs after their owne pleasure: but he, for our profite, that we myght be partakers of his holynesse. 11 No chashsyng for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but greeuous: Neuerthelesse, afterwarde it bryngeth the quiet fruite of ryghteousnesse, vnto the which are exercised therby.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten: Be feruent therfore, & repent.

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  • 2 Cor 7:9-14
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    9 I nowe reioyce, not that ye were sorie, but that ye so sorowed to repent: for ye sorowed godly, so that in nothyng ye were hurt by vs.

    10 For godly sorowe, causeth repentaunce vnto saluatio, not to be repented of: but the sorowe of the world causeth death.

    11 For beholde this thing, what carefulnesse this godly sorow that ye toke, hath wrought in you: yea what clearing of your selues, yea what indignation, yea what feare, yea what vehemet desire, yea what zeale, yea what punishment. For in all thynges ye haue shewed your selues that ye were cleare in ye matter.

    12 Wherefore, though I wrote vnto you, I dyd it not for his cause that had done the hurt, neither for his cause that was hurt: but that your good minde to vswarde myght appeare among you in the syght of God.

    13 Therfore we are comforted, because ye are comforted: yea and exceedyngly the more ioyed we, for the ioy that Titus had, because his spirite was refreshed by you all.

    14 I am therefore not nowe ashamed, though I boasted my selfe to hym of you. For as all thinges which we spake vnto you are true: euen so our boastyng that I made vnto Titus is made true.

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    1 But I determined this in my selfe, yt I would not come againe to you in heauynesse.

    2 For if I make you sorie, who is he yt shoulde make me glad, but the same which is made sorie by me?

    3 And I wrote this same vnto you, lest when I came, I shoulde take heauynesse of them of whom I ought to reioyce. This confidence haue I toward you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all.

    4 For in great affliction and anguishe of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that ye shoulde be made sorie, but that ye myght perceaue the loue which I haue, most specially vnto you.

    5 But yf any man hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made me sorie, but partly, lest I shoulde greeue you all.

    6 It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many.

    7 So that nowe contrarywise, ye ought rather to forgeue hym, and comforte hym, lest that same person shoulde be swallowed vp with ouermuche heauynesse.

    8 Wherfore I pray you, that you would confirme your loue towardes hym.

    9 For this cause veryly did I write, that I myght knowe the profe of you, whether ye be obedient in all thynges.

  • 7 And not by his comming only, but also by the consolatio whiche we receaued of you, when he tolde vs your desire, your wepyng, your feruent mynde towarde me, so that I reioyced the more.

  • 2 That I haue great heauinesse, & continuall sorowe in my heart.

  • 13 For what is it, wherin ye were inferiour vnto other Churches, except it be that I was not chargeable vnto you? Forgeue me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 7:2-4
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    2 Understande vs, we haue wronged no man, we haue corrupt no man, we haue defrauded no man.

    3 I speake not this to condempne you: for I haue shewed you before, that ye are in our heartes to dye and lyue with you.

    4 I am very bolde ouer you, I reioyce greatly in you. I am fylled with comfort, and am exceedyng ioyous in all our tribulation.

  • Phil 2:26-28
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    26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heauinesse, because that ye had hearde that he had ben sicke.

    27 And no doubt he was sicke nye vnto death, but God had mercie on hym, and not on hym only, but on me also, lest I shoulde haue sorowe vpon sorowe.

    28 I sent him therfore the more diligentlie, that when ye see him againe, ye may reioyce, and that I may be the lesse sorowfull.

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    7 For we haue great ioy & consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the saintes are refresshed by thee, brother.

    8 Wherfore, though I myght be much bolde in Christe, to inioyne thee that which is conuenient:

  • Acts 8:22-23
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    22 Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse, & praye God, if perhaps ye thought of thyne heart may be forgeuen thee.

    23 For I perceaue yt thou art in the gall of bitternesse, & wrapped in iniquitie.

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    8 For though I shoulde boast my selfe somwhat more of our auctoritie, which the Lorde hath geuen to vs for edification, and not for your destruction, it shal not be to my shame:

    9 Lest I should seeme as though I wet about to make you afrayde by letters.

  • 16 I reioyce that I may be bolde in you in all thynges.

  • 21 And that when I come agayne, my God bryng me lowe among you, and I shall bewayle many of the which haue sinned alredy, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnes, which they haue comitted.

  • 18 For the same cause also do ye reioyce, and reioyce with me.

  • 8 This say I not by commaundement, but because of ye feruentnesse of other, & alowing the vnfaynednes of your loue.

  • 7 Dyd I sinne because I submitted my selfe, that ye myght be exalted, & because I preached to you the Gospell of God freely?

  • 13 Truly, not that other be set at ease, & ye brought into combraunce:

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    16 But be it, that I was not chargeable vnto you: Neuerthelesse, when I was craftie, I caught you with guile.

    17 Dyd I pyll you by any of them who I sent vnto you?

  • 6 In the which ye reioyce, though nowe for a season (yf nede require) ye are in heauinesse through manifolde temptations:

  • 32 But though he punishe, yet according to the multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne.

  • 14 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Like as I thought to punishe you, what time as your fathers prouoked me vnto wrath, saith the Lorde of hoastes, and spared not:

  • 2 Cor 1:6-7
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    6 Whether we be troubled it is for your consolation and saluation, which saluation sheweth her power, in that ye suffer the same afflictions whiche we also suffer: or whether we be comforted it is for your consolation & saluation:

    7 And our hope is stedfast, insomuch as we knowe howe that as ye are partakers of ye afflictions, so ye be partakers also of the consolation.

  • 2 I tolde you before, and tell you before, as though I had ben present with you the seconde tyme, so write I nowe beyng absent, to them which in time past haue sinned, and to all other, that yf I come agayne, I wyll not spare,

  • 10 Therfore write I these thynges beyng absent, lest when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, accordyng to the power which the Lorde hath geuen me to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 14 I write not these thynges to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you.

  • 15 For happyly he therfore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receaue hym for euer:

  • 6 This I say of fauour, & not of commaundement.

  • 1 Would to God ye coulde haue suffred me a litle in my foolishnesse: and in dede ye do forbeare me.

  • 23 I call God for a recorde vnto my soule, that to spare you I came not as yet vnto Corinthus.