2 Corinthians 7:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • 2 Cor 6:11-12 : 11 ¶ O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
  • 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 11:11 : 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 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.
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 Therefore 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.
  • Phil 1:8-9 : 8 For 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;
  • 1 Thess 2:8 : 8 So 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.
  • Ruth 1:16-17 : 16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, [or] to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people [shall be] my people, and thy God my God: 17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but death part thee and me.
  • 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 ¶ I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you]. 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 2:4-5 : 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. 5 ¶ But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
  • 2 Cor 3:2 : 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

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  • 4 Great [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.

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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.

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

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    2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

    3 [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

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    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.

    13 Therefore 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.

    14 For 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.

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

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

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    7 For 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,

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    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.

  • 2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

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    12 ¶ For 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.

    13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

    14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

    15 ¶ And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

    16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

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

  • 12 ¶ For 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.

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

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    6 ¶ But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also [to see] you:

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

    8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

  • 12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

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    25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

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

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

  • 8 So 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.

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    7 ¶ And our hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation.

    8 For 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:

  • 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.

  • 20 For ye are our glory and joy.

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    7 And 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.

    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.

  • 31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

  • 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

  • 11 ¶ O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

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

  • 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.

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

    13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

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

  • 30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear [to be] in me.

  • 8 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

  • 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

  • 1 ¶ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,