2 Corinthians 2:4

American Standard Version (1901)

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

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  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 So although I wrote unto you, I [wrote] not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
  • Phil 3:18 : 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:
  • Lev 19:17-18 : 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. 18 Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
  • Prov 27:5-6 : 5 Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
  • Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for Jehovah hath spoken. 16 Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
  • Rom 9:2-3 : 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
  • 2 Cor 7:8-9 : 8 For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season), 9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 2:1-3
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    1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

    2 For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?

    3 And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.

  • 2 Cor 2:5
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    5 But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.

  • 2 Cor 7:3-4
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    3 I say it not to condemn [you] : for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.

    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • Phil 2:26-28
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    26 since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:

    27 for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

    28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

  • Phlm 1:7-8
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    7 For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

    8 Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • 2 Cor 2:7-9
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    7 so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

    8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.

    9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

  • Rom 9:2
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    2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

  • 2 Cor 12:15
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    15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

  • Col 2:1-2
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    1 For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

    2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even] Christ,

  • 2 Tim 1:4
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    4 longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

  • 2 Cor 7:7-9
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    7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

    8 For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

    9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

  • Phil 1:7-9
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    7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

    8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

    9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

  • Phil 1:26
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    26 that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

  • 2 Cor 7:11-12
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    11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

    12 So although I wrote unto you, I [wrote] not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

  • 2 John 1:12
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    12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not [write them] with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.

  • Phil 2:18
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    18 and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.

  • 1 Thess 2:8
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    8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

  • Phlm 1:20-21
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    20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.

    21 Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.

  • 2 Cor 7:15
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    15 And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  • 2 Cor 8:2
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    2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

  • 1 Thess 2:17
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    17 But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:

  • Eph 6:22
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    22 whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
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    11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

  • 2 Cor 1:8
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    8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

  • Gal 4:15
    72%

    15 Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Col 4:8
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    8 whom I have sent you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;

  • 1 Thess 3:4
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    4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7 for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

  • Rom 15:15
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    15 But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

  • 2 Cor 1:4
    72%

    4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

  • Gal 6:11
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    11 See with how large letters I write unto you with mine own hand.

  • 3 John 1:13
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    13 I had many things to write unto thee, but I am unwilling to write [them] to thee with ink and pen:

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;

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