2 Corinthians 13:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

Nowe I pray vnto God that yee doe none euill, not that we should seeme approued, but that ye should doe that which is honest: though we be as reprobates.

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  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And this I pray, that your loue may abound, yet more and more in knowledge, and in all iudgement, 10 That ye may alowe those things which are best, that ye may be pure, and without offence vntill the day of Christ, 11 Filled with the fruites of righteousnesse, which are by Iesus Christ vnto the glorie & praise of God.
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 Furthermore, brethre, whatsoeuer things are true, whatsoeuer things are honest, whatsoeuer thinges are iust, whatsoeuer thinges are pure, whatsoeuer thinges are worthie loue, whatsoeuer things are of good report, if there be any vertue, or if there be any praise, thinke on these things,
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 Nowe the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout: and I pray God that your whole spirite and soule and body, may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 2:2 : 2 For Kings, and for all that are in authoritie, that we may leade a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godlinesse and honestie.
  • 2 Tim 2:15 : 15 Studie to shewe thy selfe approued vnto God, a workeman that needeth not to be ashamed, diuiding the worde of trueth aright.
  • 2 Tim 4:18 : 18 And the Lorde will deliuer me from euery euil worke, and will preserue me vnto his heauenly kingdome: to whome be praise for euer and euer, Amen.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him.
  • 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 And haue your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that they which speake euill of you as of euill doers, may by your good woorkes which they shall see, glorifie God in the day of visitation.
  • Matt 6:13 : 13 And leade vs not into tentation, but deliuer vs from euill: for thine is the kingdome, and the power, and the glorie for euer. Amen.
  • John 17:15 : 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou keepe them from euill.
  • Rom 12:17 : 17 Recompence to no man euill for euill: procure things honest in the sight of all men.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 So that wee walke honestly, as in the day: not in gluttonie, and drunkennesse, neither in chambering and wantonnes, nor in strife and enuying.
  • Rom 16:10 : 10 Salute Apelles approoued in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus friendes.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the last Apostles, as men appointed to death: for we are made a gasing stocke vnto the worlde, and to the Angels, and to men. 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised. 11 Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place, 12 And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time.
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there must be heresies euen among you, that they which are approoued among you, might be knowen.
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
  • 2 Cor 6:8-9 : 8 By honour, and dishonour, by euill report, and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true: 9 As vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dying, and beholde, we liue: as chastened, and yet not killed:
  • 2 Cor 8:21 : 21 Prouiding for honest thinges, not onely before the Lord, but also before men.
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For the letters, sayeth hee, are sore and strong, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speache is of no value.
  • 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For hee that praiseth himselfe, is not alowed, but he whome the Lorde praiseth.
  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 For we are glad when wee are weake, and that ye are strong: this also we wish for, euen your perfection.
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 And Iabez called on the God of Israel, saying, If thou wilt blesse me in deede, and enlarge my coastes, and if thine hand be with me, and thou wilt cause me to be deliuered from euill, that I be not hurt; God graunted the thing that he asked.

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  • 2 Cor 13:5-6
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    5 Proue your selues whether ye are in the faith: examine your selues: knowe yee not your owne selues, howe that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

    6 But I trust that ye shall knowe that wee are not reprobates.

  • 2 Cor 13:8-9
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    8 For wee can not doe any thing against the trueth, but for the trueth.

    9 For we are glad when wee are weake, and that ye are strong: this also we wish for, euen your perfection.

  • Heb 13:18-19
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    18 Pray for vs: for we are assured that we haue a good conscience in all things, desiring to liue honestly.

    19 And I desire you somewhat the more earnestly, that yee so doe, that I may be restored to you more quickly.

  • 16 They professe that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable & disobedient, and vnto euery good worke reprobate.

  • 2 Receiue vs: we haue done wrong to no man: we haue corrupted no man: we haue defrauded no man.

  • Rom 3:7-8
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    7 For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

    8 And (as we are blamed, & as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.

  • 8 By honour, and dishonour, by euill report, and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true:

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    11 Knowing therefore that terrour of the Lord, we persuade men, and we are made manifest vnto God, and I trust also that we are made manifest in your consciences.

    12 For we prayse not our selues againe vnto you, but giue you an occasion to reioyce of vs, that ye may haue to answere against them, which reioyce in the face, and not in the heart.

    13 For whether we be out of our wit, we are it to God: or whether we be in our right minde, we are it vnto you.

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    20 Auoiding this, that no man shoulde blame vs in this aboundance that is ministred by vs,

    21 Prouiding for honest thinges, not onely before the Lord, but also before men.

  • 10 That ye may alowe those things which are best, that ye may be pure, and without offence vntill the day of Christ,

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    3 For our exhortation was not by deceite, nor by vncleannes, nor by guile.

    4 But as we were allowed of God, that the Gospel should be committed vnto vs, so we speake, not as they that please men, but God, which approoueth our hearts.

    5 Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is recorde.

    6 Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor of others, when we might haue bene chargeable, as the Apostles of Christ.

  • 3 We giue no occasion of offence in any thing, that our ministerie shoulde not be reprehended.

  • 2 But haue cast from vs ye clokes of shame, and walke not in craftines, neither handle we the worde of God deceitfully: but in declaration of the trueth we approue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God.

  • 17 For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.

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    1 Fvrthermore, brethren, pray for vs, that the worde of the Lorde may haue free passage and be glorified, euen as it is with you,

    2 And that we may be deliuered from vnreasonable and euill men: for all men haue not fayth.

  • 16 Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.

  • 15 That ye may be blamelesse, & pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world,

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    12 For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.

    13 For wee write none other thinges vnto you, then that ye reade or els that ye acknowledge, & I trust ye shal acknowledge vnto ye end.

  • 2 And this I require you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same confidence, wherewith I thinke to bee bolde against some, which esteeme vs as though wee walked according to the flesh.

  • 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and iustly, and vnblameably we behaued our selues among you that beleeue.

  • 9 Wherefore also we couet, that both dwelling at home, and remouing from home, we may be acceptable to him.

  • 11 Beloued, followe not that which is euill, but that which is good: he that doeth well, is of God: but he that doeth euill, hath not seene God.

  • 9 Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

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    11 Wherefore, we also pray alwayes for you, that our God may make you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodnes, and the worke of faith with power,

    12 That the Name of our Lorde Iesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God, and of the Lorde Iesus Christ.

  • 12 Wherefore, though I wrote vnto you, I did not it for his cause that had done the wrong, neither for his cause that had the iniurie, but that our care toward you in the sight of God might appeare vnto you.

  • 12 But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherein they reioyce.

  • 8 And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of.

  • 28 For as they regarded not to acknowledge God, euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a reprobate minde, to doe those things which are not conuenient,

  • 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised.

  • 17 Recompence to no man euill for euill: procure things honest in the sight of all men.

  • 12 That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.

  • 1 So we therefore as workers together beseech you, that ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine.

  • 10 Approuing that which is pleasing to the Lorde.

  • 15 See that none recompense euil for euil vnto any man: but euer folow that which is good, both toward your selues, and toward all men.

  • 16 But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

  • 13 We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time.

  • 14 For if that I haue boasted any thing to him of you, I haue not bene ashamed: but as I haue spoken vnto you all things in trueth, euen so our boasting vnto Titus was true.