2 Corinthians 2:9

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For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.

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  • 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
  • Phil 2:22 : 22 But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.
  • 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.
  • Phlm 1:21 : 21 Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.
  • Phil 2:12 : 12 Lights in the World So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,
  • Exod 16:4 : 4 Then the LORD said to Moses,“I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
  • Deut 13:3 : 3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the LORD your God will be testing you to see if you love him with all your mind and being.
  • 2 Cor 7:12-15 : 12 So then, even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf before God. 13 Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit. 14 For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well. 15 And his affection for you is much greater when he remembers the obedience of you all, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.
  • 2 Cor 8:24 : 24 Therefore show them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.

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