2 CORINTHIANS 7:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.”
Yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us — the distinction is crucial: godly sorrow (lypē kata theon) produces metanoia (repentance/transformation), not harm. The sorrow achieved its divine purpose.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 7:9
He goes on to apologize for his Epistle, when, (the sin having been corrected,) to treat them tenderly was unattended with danger; and he shows the advantage of the thing. For he did this indeed even before, when he said, “For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you: not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love which I have toward you.” 2 Corinthians 2:4 And he does it also now, establishing this same point in more words. And he said…
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