2 Corinthians 7:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • 2 Cor 7:7 : 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 7:9 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 9:2 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 13:7 : 7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
  • Phil 2:12 : 12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
  • 1 Tim 5:21-22 : 21 I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. 22 Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.
  • 2 Tim 2:15 : 15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.
  • Heb 12:15-16 : 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled; 16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as strangers here in reverent fear:
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
  • Jude 1:23 : 23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Gen 44:6-7 : 6 He overtook them, and he spoke to them these words. 7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
  • 2 Sam 12:5-7 : 5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die! 6 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!" 7 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
  • Neh 5:6-9 : 6 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. 7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of his brother. I held a great assembly against them. 8 I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word. 9 Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? 10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, do lend them money and grain. Please let us leave off this usury. 11 Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them. 12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise. 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
  • Neh 13:25 : 25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
  • Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."
  • Ps 2:11 : 11 Serve Yahweh with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
  • Ps 35:13 : 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
  • Ps 38:9 : 9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
  • Ps 42:1 : 1 > As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants after you, God.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal wears me out, Because my enemies ignore your words.
  • Ps 130:6 : 6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; More than watchmen for the morning.
  • Ps 145:19 : 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • Prov 14:16 : 16 A wise man fears, and shuns evil, But the fool is hotheaded and reckless.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 Blessed is the man who always fears; But one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
  • Song 8:6 : 6 Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh.
  • Isa 26:8 : 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.
  • Isa 66:2 : 2 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
  • Dan 6:14 : 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
  • Zech 12:10-14 : 10 I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me{After "me," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.} whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn. 11 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; 14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
  • Matt 5:29-30 : 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. 30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
  • Mark 9:43-48 : 43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna,{Gehenna is a word for Hell that originated as the name for a place where live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die. This place was so despised by the people after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice, that not only was it made into a garbage heap, but dead bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals were thrown there and burned.} into the unquenchable fire, 44 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched-- 46 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, 48 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
  • John 2:17 : 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
  • Acts 17:16 : 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
  • Rom 11:20 : 20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
  • 1 Cor 5:13 : 13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."
  • 1 Cor 12:25 : 25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
  • 2 Cor 2:6 : 6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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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.

    10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

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    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.

    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.

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    1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

  • 1 Thess 1:5-7
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    5 and that our Gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

    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.

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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.

    5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

    6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

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    2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

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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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    6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

  • 2 Cor 7:15-16
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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.

    16 I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

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    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.

    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.

    6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

    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.

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    5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

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    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.

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

  • 2 Cor 5:11-12
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    11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

    12 For 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 12:21
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    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.

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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.

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    10 You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

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    11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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    7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

  • 1 Thess 2:14
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    14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

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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.

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    6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.

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    22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

    23 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."

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    22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • 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.

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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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    5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

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    7 in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

  • 1 Thess 1:9
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    9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

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    6 in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

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    19 Again, 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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    7 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

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