2 Corinthians 7:4

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 2 Cor 3:12 : 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
  • 2 Cor 1:4 : 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.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;
  • 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
  • 1 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
  • Jas 1:2 : 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
  • 2 Cor 1:14 : 14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus' name.
  • Rom 5:3 : 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
  • 1 Cor 1:4 : 4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
  • 2 Cor 6:10-11 : 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
  • 2 Cor 7:6-7 : 6 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus; 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.
  • 2 Cor 8:24 : 24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
  • 2 Cor 9:2-4 : 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. 3 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, 4 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.
  • 2 Cor 10:1-2 : 1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you. 2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
  • Eph 6:19-20 : 19 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

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  • 2 Cor 7:13-16
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    13 Therefore 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.

    14 For 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.

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

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

  • 2 Cor 7:3
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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.

  • 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.

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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,

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    4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

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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.

    5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

    6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

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

    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.

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    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.

    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.

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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.

  • 2 Cor 7:5
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    5 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

  • 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.

  • Eph 3:13
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    13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

  • Phil 1:25-26
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    25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

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

  • Phil 1:14
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    14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

  • 1 Thess 2:2
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    2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12 For 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.

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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.

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    24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

  • 1 Thess 2:19-20
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    19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

    20 For you are our glory and our joy.

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    17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

    18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

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    10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

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

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

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

  • 1 Pet 4:13
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    13 But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

  • 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.

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    8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

  • Phil 1:20
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    20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 10:15
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    15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

  • 1 Thess 1:6-7
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    6 You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

    7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

  • Rom 1:12
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    12 that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

  • Phil 1:4
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    4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy,

  • Phil 4:10
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    10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

  • Rom 5:3
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    3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

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    1 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

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    24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.