2 Corinthians 6:10

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
  • John 16:22 : 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
  • Phil 4:4 : 4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
  • 1 Thess 1:6 : 6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
  • 1 Thess 3:7-9 : 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. 9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; 10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
  • 1 Thess 5:16 : 16 Rejoice evermore.
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
  • 1 Tim 6:18 : 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
  • Heb 10:34 : 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
  • Jas 1:2-4 : 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
  • 1 Pet 1:6-8 : 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
  • 1 Pet 4:13 : 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
  • Rev 2:9 : 9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they a Jews, and a not, but a the synagogue of Satan.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
  • Eph 3:16 : 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
  • Matt 5:4 : 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
  • Luke 6:21 : 21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
  • Luke 16:11-12 : 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
  • Acts 3:6 : 6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
  • Acts 16:25 : 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
  • Rom 5:2-3 : 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
  • Rom 9:2 : 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorw in my heart.
  • Rom 11:12 : 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
  • Rom 12:15 : 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
  • Rom 15:13 : 13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, thugh the power of the Holy Ghost.
  • 1 Cor 1:5 : 5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
  • 1 Cor 3:21-23 : 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
  • 2 Cor 2:4 : 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 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
  • 2 Cor 4:15 : 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
  • 2 Cor 7:3-9 : 3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you. 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. 5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. 6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; 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. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
  • Rev 21:7 : 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

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