2 Corinthians 7:9 Cross References - Worsley

⁹ However, now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance; for ye were grieved after a godly manner, so that ye received no damage from us.

⁷ Thus, I tell you, there shall be joy in heaven over one repenting sinner, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons, that have no need of repentance.

¹⁰ Thus, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one repenting sinner.

¹⁷ But coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger? ¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, ¹⁹ and am no longer worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants. ²⁰ And he rose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion; and he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. ²¹ And his son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no longer worthy to be called thy son. ²² But the father said to his servants, bring out the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: ²³ and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry: ²⁴ for this my son was dead, and is alive again, and was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

³² But it was fit we should be merry and rejoice; for this thy brother was dead, and is come to life again, was lost and is found.

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

¹² For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and pious sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and especially towards you.

¹⁶ to these indeed we are an odor of death to death; to those an odor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

⁶ But God, who comforteth those that are brought low, comforted us by the coming of Titus: ⁷ and not only by his coming, but especially by the consolation wherewith he was comforted on your account, acquainting us with your earnest desire towards us, your grief, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced greatly.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. ¹¹ For behold this very thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly manner, what diligence it wrought in you! yea, what apology, what indignation, what fear, what earnest desire, what zeal, what revenge! by all which ye have shewn yourselves to be clear in the affair.

⁸ For though I should boast yet more of our authority, (which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction) I should not be ashamed: ⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters; ¹⁰ for his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

⁸ For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. ⁹ For we rejoice when we exert not our power, and when ye are strong: as this is what we wish, even your perfection. ¹⁰ Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.