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For though I ^(C1)caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything ^(F1)through us.

For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a ^(C1)repentance ^(F1)without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

For behold what earnestness this very thing, this ^(F1)godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what ^(C1)longing, what zeal, what ^(C2)punishment of wrong! In everything you ^(C3)demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

So although ^(C1)I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of ^(C2)the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness in our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God.