Today we will delve deeper into 2Corinthians chapter 7. Aside from verse 1 (which really belong at the end of Chapter 6), all of Chapter 7 reads as one single thought with two main ideas:
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- Paul’s anxiety over his poor relationship with the Corinthians during his travels;
- Paul’s joy at their repentance (or at least, of most of them).
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Chapter 7 is one of the most personal sections of the letter of second Corinthians, which on the whole is a very personal letter anyway. We can get more insight into Paul as a person, how his zeal for God led him to have such strong concerns for the people around him.
We can also get some other interesting teachings out of this chapter: the importance of godly sorrow: something that takes humility (not self-pity, as in the case of Judas), but an acknowledgment of wrong-doing and a true desire to amend ones’ ways.