4. Great is my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.
5. For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.
6. But he who encourages those that are brought low, even God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;
7. and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.
8. For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even it were only for a time, grieved you.
9. Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.
10. For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.