2 Corinthians 7:8 Cross References - Moffatt

⁸ In fact, if I did pain you by that letter, I do not regret it. I did regret it when I discovered that my letter had pained you even for the time being,

²¹ and as they were eating he said, "One of you is going to betray me." ²² They were greatly distressed at this, and each of them said to him, "Lord, surely it is not me."

⁶¹ the Lord turned round and looked at Peter, and then Peter remembered what the Lord had told him, that 'Before cock-crow to-day you will disown me three times.' ⁶² And he went outside and wept bitterly.

⁶ No, your heart is full of sorrow at what I have told you.

¹⁷ For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

² For if I pain you, then who is to give me pleasure? None but the very people I am paining! ³ So the very reason I wrote was that I might not come only to be pained by those who ought to give me joy; I relied on you all, I felt sure that my joy would be a joy for everyone of you. ⁴ For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear — not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you. ⁵ If a certain individual has been causing pain, he has been causing pain not so much to me as to all of you — at anyrate (for I am not going to overstate the case) to a section of you. ⁶ This censure from the majority is severe enough for the individual in question, ⁷ so that instead of censuring you should now forgive him and comfort him, in case the man is overwhelmed by excessive remorse. ⁸ So I beg you to reinstate him in your love. ⁹ For my aim in writing was simply to test you, to see if you were absolutely obedient. ¹⁰ If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes, ¹¹ in case Satan should take advantage of our position — for I know his manœuvres!

⁶ But the God who comforts the dejected comforted me by the arrival of Titus.

¹¹ See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

⁹ Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live? ¹⁰ For while their discipline was only for a time, and inflicted at their pleasure, he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his own holiness. ¹¹ Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

¹⁹ I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.