2 Corinthians 7:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;

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  • Acts 20:33 : 33 `The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
  • 2 Cor 6:3-7 : 3 in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed, 4 but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,
  • 2 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own' bowels, 13 and `as' a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say `it',) be ye enlarged -- also ye!
  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.
  • 2 Cor 11:16 : 16 Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.
  • 2 Cor 12:14-18 : 14 Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children, 15 and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved. 16 And be it `so', I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you; 17 any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you? 18 I entreated Titus, and did send with `him' the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? -- did we not in the same steps?
  • Phil 2:29 : 29 receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,
  • Col 4:10 : 10 Salute you doth Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus, the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye did receive commands -- if he may come unto you receive him,)
  • 1 Thess 2:3-6 : 3 for our exhortation `is' not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile, 4 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts, 5 for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!) 6 nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.
  • 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,
  • 2 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you; 8 nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you; 9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
  • Phlm 1:12 : 12 whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,
  • Phlm 1:17 : 17 If, then, with me thou hast fellowship, receive him as me,
  • 2 John 1:10 : 10 if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!'
  • 3 John 1:8-9 : 8 we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth. 9 I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us; 10 because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.
  • Num 16:15 : 15 And it is very displeasing to Moses, and he saith unto Jehovah, `Turn not Thou unto their present; not one ass from them have I taken, nor have I afflicted one of them.'
  • 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 `Lo, here `am' I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? -- and I restore to you.' 4 And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.'
  • Matt 10:14 : 14 `And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,
  • Matt 10:40 : 40 `He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me,
  • Luke 10:8 : 8 and into whatever city ye enter, and they may receive you, eat the things set before you,

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