2 Corinthians 2:4

World English Bible (2000)

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

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  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
  • Phil 3:18 : 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
  • Lev 19:17-18 : 17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. 18 "'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI
  • Prov 27:5-6 : 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
  • Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Hear, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken. 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness. 17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
  • Rom 9:2-3 : 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
  • 2 Cor 7:8-9 : 8 For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while. 9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

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  • 2 Cor 2:1-3
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    1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

    2 For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?

    3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

  • 2 Cor 2:5
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    5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

  • 2 Cor 7:3-4
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    3 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • Phil 2:26-28
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    26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.

    27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

    28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

  • Phlm 1:7-8
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    7 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 2 Cor 2:7-9
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    7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

    8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

    9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

  • Rom 9:2
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    2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

  • 2 Cor 12:15
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    15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

  • Col 2:1-2
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    1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

    2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

  • 2 Tim 1:4
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    4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

  • 2 Cor 7:7-9
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    7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

    8 For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

    9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

  • Phil 1:7-9
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    7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

    8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

    9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

  • Phil 1:26
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    26 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

  • 2 Cor 7:11-12
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    11 For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

    12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

  • 2 John 1:12
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    12 Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

  • Phil 2:18
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    18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

  • 1 Thess 2:8
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    8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

  • Phlm 1:20-21
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    20 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

    21 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

  • 2 Cor 7:15
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    15 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  • 2 Cor 8:2
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    2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

  • 1 Thess 2:17
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    17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

  • Eph 6:22
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    22 whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
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    11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

  • 2 Cor 1:8
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    8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Col 4:8
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    8 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

  • 1 Thess 3:4
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    4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

  • Rom 15:15
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    15 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

  • 2 Cor 1:4
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    4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • Gal 6:11
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    11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

  • 3 John 1:13
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    13 I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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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 also do toward you,