For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.Behold, my belly[ is] as wine[ which] hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But[ his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not[ stay].
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.Sufficient to such a man[ is] this punishment, which[ was inflicted] of many.
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with[ him that is] full of days.
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though[ it were] but for a season.Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.