For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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Interpretation
There were fightings without, or continual contentions with, and opposition from Jews and Gentiles; and there were fears within, and great concern for such as had embraced the Christian faith. But God comforts those who are cast down.
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This thought runs through 2 Corinthians 7:6-10.