2 Corinthians 7:9 Cross References - MKJV

⁹ 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.

¹⁸ For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin.

³ Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.

⁹ And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know. ¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed. ¹¹ Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation,

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God. ¹⁹ Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was taught, I struck on my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, I even blushed, because I bore the disgrace of my youth. ²⁰ Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still. Therefore My heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Jehovah.

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.

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.

¹⁰ Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

¹⁷ And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger! ¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants. ²⁰ And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. ²¹ And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and am no more worthy to be called your son. ²² But the father said to his servants, Bring the best robe and put it on him. And put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. ²³ And bring the fattened calf here and kill it. And let us eat and be merry, ²⁴ for this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

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.

²¹ testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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?

⁶ But He who comforts the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus. ⁷ And not only by his coming, but by the comfort with which he was comforted over you, telling us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

¹⁰ For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death. ¹¹ For behold this same thing (you being grieved according to God); how much it worked out earnestness in you; but also defense; but also indignation; but also fear; but also desire; but also zeal; but also vengeance! In everything you approved yourselves to be clear in the matter.

⁸ For even if I also should boast somewhat more fully of our authority (which the Lord has given us for building up, and not for pulling you down) I will not be put to shame; ⁹ so that I might not seem to terrify you by letters. ¹⁰ For indeed they say, the letters are weighty and powerful, but the bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible.

⁸ For we have no power against the truth, but for the truth. ⁹ For we are glad when we are weak, and you are powerful. But we pray also for this, your perfection. ¹⁰ Therefore I write these things while absent, lest being present I may not deal sharply with you according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.