I now rejoice, not that ye were sorry, but that ye sorrowed to [a]repentance: for ye sorrowed godly, so that in nothing ye were hurt by us.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 7:9 Insomuch that that sorrow did you much good toward the amending of your lewdness and sins.

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.

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