2 Corinthians 7:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

2 Corinthians 7:8 —

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Cross-References

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Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Matthew 26:21-22
And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. …
Jeremiah 20:7-9
O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. …
Hebrews 12:9-11
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? …
John 21:17
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-11)

There seems to be a connection between 2 Cor. 2:13; 7:5 (where the apostle said he had no rest in his spirit when he found not Titus at Troas) and the 2 Cor. 2:13; 7:5: and so great was his affection to the Corinthians, and his concern about their behaviour in relation to the incestuous person, that, in his further travels, he still had no rest till he heard from them. And now he tells them, I. Ho…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. with a letter--Greek, “in the letter” namely, the first Epistle to the Corinthians. I do not repent, though I did repent--Translate, “I do not regret it, though I did regret it.” The Greek words for regret and repent are distinct. Paul was almost regretting, through parental tenderness, his having used rebukes calculated to grieve the Corinthians; but now that he has learned from Titus the salu…