2 Corinthians 7:12

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 2:9 : 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 7:8 : 8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
  • 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
  • 1 Cor 5:1-2 : 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
  • 2 Cor 2:3-4 : 3 And I wrote this same unto you, 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. 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 7:11
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    11For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

  • 2 Cor 12:13-14
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    13For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

    14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

  • 2 Cor 7:7-9
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    7And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

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

    9Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

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

    3And I wrote this same unto you, 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.

    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

    5But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

  • 2 Cor 7:13-16
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    13Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

    14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

    15And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

    16I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.

  • 2 Cor 7:2-4
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    2Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

    3I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

    4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

  • 2 Cor 2:7-10
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    7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

    8Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

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

    10To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

  • 2 Cor 12:17-19
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    17Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

    18I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

    19Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

  • Phlm 1:7-8
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    7For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

    8Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

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

    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

    9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

  • 2 Cor 8:20-21
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    20Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

    21Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

  • Phlm 1:18
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    18If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;

  • 1 Cor 6:7
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    7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

  • Gal 5:10
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    10I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • 2 Cor 13:7
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    7Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

  • Phil 1:7
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    7Even as it is meet for me to think this 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 of my grace.

  • Phil 4:10
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    10But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

  • 2 Cor 8:16
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    16But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.