2 Corinthians 7:11

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For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.

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  • 2 Cor 7:7 : 7 And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.
  • 2 Cor 7:9 : 9 Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.
  • 2 Cor 9:2 : 2 For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.
  • 2 Cor 13:7 : 7 Now our prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that it may be put to our credit, but so that you may do what is right, whatever we may seem.
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
  • Phil 2:12 : 12 So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;
  • 1 Tim 5:21-22 : 21 I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another. 22 Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.
  • 2 Tim 2:15 : 15 Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.
  • Heb 12:15-16 : 15 Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it; 16 And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
  • Jude 1:23 : 23 And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
  • Gen 44:6-7 : 6 So he overtook them and said these words to them. 7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:
  • 2 Sam 12:5-7 : 5 And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this: 6 And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity. 7 And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;
  • Neh 5:6-9 : 6 And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry. 7 And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest. 8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word. 9 And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us? 10 Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing. 11 Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them. 12 Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement. 13 And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.
  • Neh 13:25 : 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
  • Job 42:6 : 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
  • Ps 2:11 : 11 Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,
  • Ps 35:13 : 13 But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.
  • Ps 38:9 : 9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
  • Ps 42:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.
  • Ps 130:6 : 6 My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning.
  • Ps 145:19 : 19 To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.
  • Prov 14:16 : 16 The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
  • Song 8:6 : 6 Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
  • Isa 26:8 : 8 We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.
  • Isa 66:2 : 2 For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. 19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
  • Dan 6:14 : 14 Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.
  • Zech 12:10-14 : 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son. 11 In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 13 The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 14 And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.
  • Matt 5:29-30 : 29 And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell. 30 And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.
  • Mark 9:43-48 : 43 And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire. 44 [] 45 And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell. 46 [] 47 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell, 48 Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.
  • John 2:17 : 17 And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.
  • Acts 17:16 : 16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was troubled, for he saw all the town full of images of the gods.
  • Rom 11:20 : 20 Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.
  • 1 Cor 5:13 : 13 As for those who are outside, God is their judge. So put away the evil man from among you.
  • 1 Cor 12:25 : 25 So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.
  • 2 Cor 2:6 : 6 Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 7:7-10
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    7 And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.

    8 For though my letter gave you pain, I have no regret for it now, though I had before; for I see that the letter gave you pain, but only for a time.

    9 Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

    10 For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

  • 2 Cor 7:12-13
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    12 So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.

    13 So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.

  • 2 Cor 7:1-2
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    1 Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

    2 Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,

  • 1 Thess 1:5-7
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    5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

    6 And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

    7 So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.

  • 2 Thess 1:4-6
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    4 So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;

    5 Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;

    6 For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,

  • 1 Cor 5:2
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    2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

  • 1 Pet 1:6
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    6 You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

  • 2 Cor 7:15-16
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    15 And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour.

    16 It gives me great joy to see you answering to my good opinion of you in every way.

  • 2 Cor 2:2-7
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    2 For if I give you sorrow, who then will make me glad, but he who is made sad by me?

    3 And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.

    4 For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

    5 But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

    6 Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;

    7 So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4 My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9 And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.

  • 2 Cor 5:11-12
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    11 Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

    12 We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21 And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

  • 1 Thess 2:10
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    10 You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 2 Cor 8:7
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    7 And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

  • 1 Thess 2:14
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    14 For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

  • Phlm 1:7
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    7 For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

  • 2 Cor 10:6
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    6 Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.

  • Acts 8:22-23
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    22 Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

    23 For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • 2 Cor 8:2
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    2 How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    5 So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14 For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

  • Titus 2:7
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    7 In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

  • 1 Thess 1:9
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    9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

  • 2 Cor 6:6
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    6 In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19 It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

  • 2 Thess 3:7
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    7 For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order,