2 Corinthians 2:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

For to this end I also wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in all things.

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  • 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 And being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
  • Phil 2:22 : 22 But you know his proven character, that, as a son with his father, he has served with me in the gospel.
  • 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 And if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, note that person and do not associate with him, that he may be ashamed.
  • Phlm 1:21 : 21 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
  • Phil 2:12 : 12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
  • Exod 16:4 : 4 Then the LORD said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain amount every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end;
  • Deut 13:3 : 3 You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God tests you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • 2 Cor 7:12-15 : 12 Therefore, though I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you. 13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yes, and exceedingly the more did we rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 14 For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be true. 15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.
  • 2 Cor 8:24 : 24 Therefore show to them and before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.

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