2 Corinthians 7:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Cor 6:11-12 : 11 O Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.
  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
  • 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 am 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 has given me for edification, and not for destruction.
  • Phil 1:8-9 : 8 For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ. 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
  • 1 Thess 2:8 : 8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear to us.
  • Ruth 1:16-17 : 16 And Ruth said, Do not urge me to leave you, or to turn back from following you: for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay: your people shall be my people, and your God my God: 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.
  • 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. 15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love I have more abundantly toward you. 5 But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not put too much burden on you all.
  • 2 Cor 3:2 : 2 You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

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

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    7Just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.

    8For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 3:2-3
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    2You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

    3Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart.

  • 2 Cor 7:12-16
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    12Therefore, 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.

    13Therefore 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.

    14For 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.

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

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

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    7For we have great joy and solace in your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.

    8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,

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    3And I wrote this to you so that when I come, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to bring me joy; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

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

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

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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 conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

    13For we write no other things to you than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;

    14As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

    15And in this confidence, I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit;

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

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    19Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you an opportunity to boast on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

  • 2 Cor 2:8
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    8Therefore I urge you to confirm your love toward him.

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    6But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, as we also to see you:

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

    8For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

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

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    25And being confident of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith;

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    8I speak not by commandment, but as a test of the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

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    8So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear to us.

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    7And our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

    8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed beyond measure, above strength, so much that we despaired even of life.

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    17But we, brothers, having been taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire.

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    20For you are our glory and joy.

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    7And not by his coming only, but by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced even 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 made you sorry, though it was only for a season.

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

  • 1 Cor 15:31
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    31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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    12So then, death works in us, but life in you.

  • 2 Cor 6:11
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    11O Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.

  • Phil 2:18
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    18For the same reason, you also should rejoice and rejoice with me.

  • 2 John 1:12
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    12Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

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    12And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all people, just as we do toward you:

    13To the end He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

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    23Moreover, I call God as a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I did not come yet to Corinth.

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    30Having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear to be in me.

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    8We are confident, I say, and prefer to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

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    4And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command you.

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    1I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,