7:11Paul affirmed the Corinthians for their right response to the correction he had given them. It’s difficult to accept criticism, correction, or rebuke with poise and grace. It is much more natural to be defensive and then counterattack. We can accept criticism with self-pity, thinking we don’t really deserve it. We can be angry and resentful. But a mature Christian should graciously accept constructive criticism, sincerely evaluate it, and grow from it.
Life Application Study Bible2 CorinthiansChapter 7
2 Corinthians 7
New Living Translation · Life Application Study Bible · Original page: 1970
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72 Corinthians 7
11Just see what this godly sorrow produced in you! Such earnestness, such concern to clear yourselves, such indignation, such alarm, such longing to see me, such zeal, and such a readiness to punish wrong. You showed that you have done everything necessary to make things right. 12My purpose, then, was not to write about who did the wrong or who was 7:12 wronged. I wrote to you so that in the sight of God you could see for yourselves how loyal you 4 Gor 33,9 are to us. 13We have been greatly encouraged by this. 7:13 2 Cor 2:13 In addition to our own encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus was about the way all of you welcomed him and set his mind* at ease. “I had told him