2 Corinthians 7:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 2 Cor 6:11-12 : 11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
  • 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 11:11 : 11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.
  • 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?
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
  • Phil 1:8-9 : 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;
  • 1 Thess 2:8 : 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.
  • Ruth 1:16-17 : 16 Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; 17 where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
  • 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
  • 2 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 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. 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 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 on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

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    7It 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.

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

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

    3being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

  • 2 Cor 7:12-16
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    12So 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.

    13Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

    14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

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

    16I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.

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    7For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

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

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    3And 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.

    4For 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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    2Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

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    12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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

    14as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

    15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

    16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

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    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

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

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    6But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

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

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

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    25Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

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

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    8Even 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.

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    7Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

    8For 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.

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    17But 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,

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    20For you are our glory and our joy.

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    7and 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.

    8For 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.

    9I 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.

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then death works in us, but life in you.

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

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

  • 2 John 1:12
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    12Having 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.

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    12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

    13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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    23But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

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    8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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

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    1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,