2 Corinthians 11:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 2:19-20 : 19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; And you shall know Yahweh.
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
  • Eph 5:26-27 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
  • John 3:29 : 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
  • Lev 21:13-15 : 13 "'He shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife. 15 He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"
  • Isa 62:4-5 : 4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married. 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
  • Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house. 11 So the king will desire your beauty, Honor him, for he is your lord.
  • Gen 24:2-5 : 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh. 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac." 5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"
  • Gen 24:58-67 : 58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go." 59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men. 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them." 61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi. For he lived in the land of the South. 63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. 64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel. 65 She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself. 66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Gospel.
  • 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
  • Gal 4:17-19 : 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--

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  • 1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

  • 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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    34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.

    35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

  • 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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    15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

    16 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

    17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

  • 32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

  • 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

  • 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

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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?

    16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

  • 2 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."

  • 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

  • 14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

  • 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • 32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

  • 21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

  • 2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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

  • 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

  • 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

  • 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.

  • 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

  • 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

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    7 But we were gentle among of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.

    8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

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

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    19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

    20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; And you shall know Yahweh.

  • 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

  • 15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

  • 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your{TR, NU read "that" instead of "your"} woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

  • Phil 1:16-17
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    16 The former insincerly preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Gospel.

  • 29 "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

  • 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel;

  • 1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • 4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

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    11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

    12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

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

  • 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

  • 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

  • 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, With one chain of your neck.

  • 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,

  • 14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:

  • 2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.