2 Corinthians 7:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

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.

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  • 2 Cor 2:9 : 9 For this cause also did I write, that I might knowe the proofe of you, whether yee would be obedient in all things.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 7:8 : 8 For though I made you sorie with a letter, I repent not, though I did repent: for I perceiue that the same epistle made you sorie, though it were but for a season.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Beside the thinges which are outwarde, I am combred dayly, and haue the care of all the Churches.
  • 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
  • 1 Cor 5:1-2 : 1 It is heard certainely that there is fornication among you: and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles, that one should haue his fathers wife. 2 And ye are puffed vp and haue not rather sorowed, that he which hath done this deede, might be put from among you.
  • 2 Cor 2:3-4 : 3 And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all. 4 For in great affliction, & anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with many teares: not that yee should be made sorie, but that ye might perceiue the loue which I haue, specially vnto you.

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  • 2 Cor 7:11
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    11For beholde, this thing that ye haue bene godly sory, what great care it hath wrought in you: yea, what clearing of yourselues: yea, what indignation: yea, what feare: yea, howe great desire: yea, what a zeale: yea, what reuenge: in all things ye haue shewed your selues, that ye are pure in this matter.

  • 2 Cor 12:13-14
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    13For what is it, wherein yee were inferiours vnto other Churches, except that I haue not bene slouthfull to your hinderance? forgiue me this wrong.

    14Behold, the thirde time I am ready to come vnto you, and yet will I not be slouthfull to your hinderance: for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children.

  • 2 Cor 7:7-9
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    7And not by his comming onely, but also by the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you, when he tolde vs your great desire, your mourning, your feruent minde to me warde, so that I reioyced much more.

    8For though I made you sorie with a letter, I repent not, though I did repent: for I perceiue that the same epistle made you sorie, though it were but for a season.

    9I nowe reioyce, not that ye were sorie, but that ye sorowed to repentance: for ye sorowed godly, so that in nothing ye were hurt by vs.

  • 2 Cor 2:2-5
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    2For if I make you sorie, who is he then that shoulde make me glad, but ye same which is made sorie by me?

    3And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

    4For in great affliction, & anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with many teares: not that yee should be made sorie, but that ye might perceiue the loue which I haue, specially vnto you.

    5And if any hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made mee sorie, but partly (lest I should more charge him ) you all.

  • 2 Cor 7:13-16
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    13Therefore we were comforted, because ye were comforted: but rather we reioyced much more for the ioye of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

    14For 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.

    15And his inwarde affection is more aboundant toward you, when he remembreth the obedience of you all, and howe with feare and trembling ye receiued him.

    16I reioyce therefore that I may put my confidence in you in all things.

  • 2 Cor 7:2-4
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    2Receiue vs: we haue done wrong to no man: we haue corrupted no man: we haue defrauded no man.

    3I speake it not to your condemnation: for I haue said before, that ye are in our hearts, to die and liue together.

    4I vse great boldnesse of speach toward you: I reioyce greatly in you: I am filled with comfort, and am exceeding ioyous in all our tribulation.

  • 2 Cor 2:7-10
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    7So that nowe contrariwise yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest the same shoulde bee swalowed vp with ouermuch heauinesse.

    8Wherefore, I pray you, that you woulde confirme your loue towards him.

    9For this cause also did I write, that I might knowe the proofe of you, whether yee would be obedient in all things.

    10To whome yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for verely if I forgaue any thing, to whome I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it in the sight of Christ,

  • 2 Cor 12:17-19
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    17Did I pill you by any of them whom I sent vnto you?

    18I haue desired Titus, and with him I haue sent a brother: did Titus pill you of any thing? walked we not in the selfe same spirit? walked we not in the same steppes?

    19Againe, thinke yee that wee excuse our selues vnto you? we speake before God in Christ. But wee doe all thinges, dearely beloued, for your edifying.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12For 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.

  • Phlm 1:7-8
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    7For we haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because by thee, brother, the Saintes bowels are comforted.

    8Wherefore, though I bee very bolde in Christ to commaunde thee that which is conuenient,

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lorde hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12For 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.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke:

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Haue I committed an offence, because I abased my selfe, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you ye Gospell of God freely?

  • 2 Cor 11:11-12
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    11Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.

    12But 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.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lorde hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame.

    9This I say, that I may not seeme as it were to feare you with letters.

  • 2 Cor 8:20-21
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    20Auoiding this, that no man shoulde blame vs in this aboundance that is ministred by vs,

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

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7Therefore, brethren, we had consolation in you, in all our affliction and necessitie through your faith.

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24Wherefore shew toward them, and before the Churches the proofe of your loue, and of the reioycing that we haue of you.

  • Phlm 1:18
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    18If he hath hurt thee, or oweth thee ought, that put on mine accounts.

  • 1 Cor 6:7
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    7Nowe therefore there is altogether infirmitie in you, in that yee goe to lawe one with another: why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather susteine yee not harme?

  • Gal 5:10
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    10I haue trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but hee that troubleth you, shal beare his condemnation, whosoeuer he be.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Nowe, I call God for a recorde vnto my soule, that to spare you, I came not as yet vnto Corinthus.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1For as touching the ministring to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write vnto you.

  • 2 Cor 13:7
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    7Nowe 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.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8This say I not by commaundement, but because of the diligence of others: therefore prooue I the naturalnesse of your loue.

  • Phil 1:7
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    7As it becommeth me so to iudge of you all, because I haue you in remembrance that both in my bands, and in my defence, & confirmation of the Gospell you all were partakers of my grace.

  • Phil 4:10
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    10Nowe I reioyce also in the Lord greatly, that nowe at the last your care for mee springeth afresh, wherein notwithstanding ye were careful, but yee lacked opportunitie.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

  • 2 Cor 8:16
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    16And thanks be vnto God, which hath put in the heart of Titus the same care for you.