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I have great confidence in you, and I boast about you with intense pride. Despite all of our afflictions, I am greatly encouraged and overflowing with joy.

[a]Even when we arrived in Macedonia, we were unable to rest our bodies, for we were afflicted in every way: conflicts on the outside and fears on the inside. But God, who comforts the downcast, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus—

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 7:5 Paul picks up, after an interruption, the account of events that he had been giving earlier (2 Cor 2:13). Titus (v. 6) is not mentioned in the Book of Acts, but he is mentioned in other Letters of Paul (Gal 2:1-3; 2 Tim 4:10), and is the addressee of another.

I have spoken to you with great frankness; I take great pride in you.(A) I am greatly encouraged;(B) in all our troubles my joy knows no bounds.(C)

For when we came into Macedonia,(D) we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn(E)—conflicts on the outside, fears within.(F) But God, who comforts the downcast,(G) comforted us by the coming of Titus,(H)

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