Modern Literal Version
[2 Corinthians 7]^7:1 Therefore beloved, having these promises, we should cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, completing {Or: maturing} holiness in the fear of God.

     ^7:2 Make^* room for us in your^* hearts: we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took-advantage of no one. ^7:3 I am not saying this toward your^* condemnation; for^* I have said before, that you^* are in our hearts, ^*that^* we may die together with you^* and we may live together withyou^*. ^7:4 My boldness of speech toward you^*is much; my boasting on your^* behalf is much. I have been filled with your encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.

     ^7:5 For^* even after we went into Macedonia, our flesh still had not had any relief, but we werebeing afflicted in everything; outside were quarrels, inside were fears. ^7:6 But God, who encourages the humble, encouraged us at the presence of Titus; ^7:7 and not only at his presence, but also at the encouragement to which he was encouraged in you^*, while reporting to us your^*longing, your^* anguish, your^* zeal on my behalf; so-then for me to rejoice even more. ^7:8 Because even if I made you^* sorrowful in the previous letter, I do not regret it; even if I was regretting it.For^* I see that, that letter made you^* sorrowful, even if but for a short-time. ^7:9 I now rejoice, not that you^* were made sorrowful, but that you^* were made sorrowful to repentance; for^* you^* were made sorrowful according to the will of God, in order that you^* might suffer-damage in nothing from us. ^7:10 For^* the sorrow which is according to the will of God is working unregretted repentance ^*for salvation, but the sorrow of the world is working death. ^7:11 For^* behold how-much diligence this same thing, (to be made sorrowful according to the will of God), worked in you^*: but what a defense, but what indignation, but what fear, but what longing, but what zeal, but what vengeance! You^* commended yourselves in everything to be pure in the matter. ^7:12Consequently^*, if I also wrote to you^*, it was not because of the one who had done wrong, nor because of the one who was wronged, but because of your^* diligent-aid on our behalf to be made manifest to you^* in God's sight. ^7:13 Because of this, now, we have been encouraged in your^*encouragement, we rejoiced even-more rather upon the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been given-rest from all of you^*. ^7:14 Because if I have boasted in anything on your^* behalf to him, I was not ashamed, but as we spoke all things to you^* in truth, so also, our boasting in Titus became truth. ^7:15 And his affections are even-more toward you^*, while remembering the obedience of all of you^*, how with fear and trembling you^* accepted him. ^7:16 I rejoice that in everything I have courage in you^*.

Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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