2 Corinthians 2:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 ¶ 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.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • Phil 3:18 : 18 (For many walk, of whom I have 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 thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 ¶ Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
  • Prov 27:5-6 : 5 ¶ Open rebuke [is] better than secret love. 6 Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.
  • Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD 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 places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, ‹If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things› [which belong] ‹unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.› 43 ‹For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,› 44 ‹And shall lay thee even with 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 heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
  • 2 Cor 7:8-9 : 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. 9 Now 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.

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

    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.

  • 2 Cor 2:5
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    5¶ But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

  • 2 Cor 7:3-4
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    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.

  • Phil 2:26-28
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    26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

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

    28I sent him therefore the more carefully, 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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    7For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

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

  • 2 Cor 2:7-9
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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.

  • Rom 9:2
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    2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

  • 2 Cor 12:15
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    15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

  • Col 2:1-2
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    1¶ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and [for] them at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

    2That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

  • 2 Tim 1:4
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    4Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

  • 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.

  • Phil 1:7-9
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    7¶ Even 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.

    8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

    9¶ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment;

  • Phil 1:26
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    26That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

  • 2 Cor 7:11-12
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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.

    12¶ 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.

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

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

  • 1 Thess 2:8
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    8So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

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

    21Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

  • 2 Cor 7:15
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    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.

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 8:2
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    2How that in a great trial 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 taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

  • Eph 6:22
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    22Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and [that] he might comfort your hearts.

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

  • 2 Cor 1:8
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    8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

  • Col 4:8
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    8Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

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

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

  • Rom 15:15
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    15Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

  • 2 Cor 1:4
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    4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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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.

  • Gal 6:11
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    11¶ Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

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    13I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:

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    12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all [men], even as we [do] toward you: