Verse 3

And I wrote this same vnto you, lest when I came, I shoulde take heauynesse of them of whom I ought to reioyce. This confidence haue I toward you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all.

Referenced Verses

  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I haue truste towarde you in the Lorde, that ye wyll be none otherwyse mynded: But he that troubleth you, shall beare iudgement, whatsoeuer he be.
  • 2 Cor 8:22 : 22 We haue sent with them a brother of ours, whom we haue oftentymes proued diligent in many thinges, but nowe much more diligent, for the great confidence whiche I haue in you:
  • Phlm 1:21 : 21 Trustyng in thine obedience, I wrote vnto thee, knowyng, that thou wilt also do more then I say.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become a foole in gloriyng. Ye haue compelled me: for I ought to haue ben commended of you. For nothyng was I inferiour vnto the chiefe Apostles, though I be nothyng,
  • 2 Cor 12:21-13:2 : 21 And that when I come agayne, my God bryng me lowe among you, and I shall bewayle many of the which haue sinned alredy, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnes, which they haue comitted. 1 Nowe come I the third time vnto you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall euery worde be stablisshed. 2 I tolde you before, and tell you before, as though I had ben present with you the seconde tyme, so write I nowe beyng absent, to them which in time past haue sinned, and to all other, that yf I come agayne, I wyll not spare,
  • 2 Thess 3:4 : 4 And we haue confidence in the Lorde to youwarde, that ye both do, and wyll do the thynges whiche we commaunde you.
  • 1 Cor 4:21-5:13 : 21 What wyl ye? Shal I come vnto you with a rodde, or in loue and in the spirite of mekenesse? 1 There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, & suche fornication as is not named among the gentiles: that one shoulde haue his fathers wyfe. 2 And ye swell, and haue not rather sorowed, that he that hath so done this deede myght be put from among you. 3 For I veryly, as absent in body, but present in spirite, haue determined alredie, as though I were present, concernyng hym that hath done this deede. 4 In the name of our Lorde Iesus Christe, when ye are gathered together and my spirite, with the power of the Lorde Iesus Christe, 5 To delyuer suche a one vnto Satan for the destruction of the flesshe, that the spirite may be saued in the daye of the Lorde Iesus. 6 Your reioycing is not good. Knowe ye not, that a litle leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe? 7 Purge out therfore the olde leauen, that ye maye be newe dowe, as ye are vnleauened bread: For Christe our Pasouer is offred vp for vs. 8 Therefore let vs kepe holy day, not with old leauen, neither with the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse, but with the vnleauened bread of purenesse and trueth. 9 I wrote vnto you in an epistle, that ye should not companie with fornicatours: 10 And I meant not at all with the fornicatours of this worlde, or with the couetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters: for then must ye needes haue gone out of the world. 11 But nowe I haue written vnto you, that ye companie not together, if any that is called a brother be a fornicatour, or couetous, or a worshipper of idols, or a rayler, or a drunkarde, or an extortioner: with him that is such see that ye eate not. 12 For what haue I to do to iudge them that are without? Do ye not iudge them that are within? 13 For what haue I to do to iudge them that are without? Do ye not iudge them that are within? Them that are without God iudgeth. Put away from among you that wicked person.
  • 2 Cor 1:15 : 15 And in this confidence was I minded first to haue come vnto you, yt ye myght haue had one pleasure more:
  • 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 Neuerthelesse, God that comforteth the humble, comforted vs by the commyng of Titus.
  • 2 Cor 7:8 : 8 For though I made you sorie with a letter, I repent not, though I dyd repent. For I perceaue, that the same epistle made you sorie, though it were but for a season.
  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 Wherefore, though I wrote vnto you, I dyd it not for his cause that had done the hurt, neither for his cause that was hurt: but that your good minde to vswarde myght appeare among you in the syght of God.