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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.