Verse 3

And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

Referenced Verses

  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I haue trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but hee that troubleth you, shal beare his condemnation, whosoeuer he be.
  • 2 Cor 8:22 : 22 And we haue sent with them our brother, whom we haue oft times prooued to be diligent in many thinges, but nowe much more diligent, for the great confidence, which I haue in you.
  • Phlm 1:21 : 21 Trusting in thine obedience, I wrote vnto thee, knowing that thou wilt do eue more then I say.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.
  • 2 Cor 12:21-13:2 : 21 I feare least when I come againe, my God abase me among you, and I shall bewaile many of them which haue sinned already, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnesse which they haue committed. 1 Lo this is the thirde time that I come vnto you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall euery worde stand 2 I tolde you before, and tell you before: as though I had bene present the seconde time, so write I nowe being absent to them which heretofore haue sinned and to all others, that if I come againe, I will not spare,
  • 2 Thess 3:4 : 4 And we are perswaded of you through the Lord, that ye both doe, & will doe the things which we warne you of.
  • 1 Cor 4:21-5:13 : 21 What will ye? shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, & in ye spirite of meekenes? 1 It is heard certainely that there is fornication among you: and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles, that one should haue his fathers wife. 2 And ye are puffed vp and haue not rather sorowed, that he which hath done this deede, might be put from among you. 3 For I verely as absent in bodie, but present in spirit, haue determined already as though I were present, that he that hath thus done this thing, 4 When ye are gathered together, and my spirit, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that such one, I say, by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ, 5 Be deliuered vnto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus. 6 Your reioycing is not good: knowe ye not that a litle leauen, leaueneth ye whole lumpe? 7 Purge out therefore the olde leauen, that ye may be a newe lumpe, as ye are vnleauened: for Christ our Passeouer is sacrificed for vs. 8 Therefore let vs keepe the feast, not with olde leauen, neither in the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of synceritie and trueth. 9 I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, that ye should not companie together with fornicatours, 10 And not altogether with the fornicatours of this world, or with the couetous, or with extorsioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must goe out of the world. 11 But nowe I haue written vnto you, that ye companie not together: if any that is called a brother, be a fornicatour, or couetous, or an idolater, or a rayler, or a drunkard, or an extorsioner, with such one eate not. 12 For what haue I to doe, to iudge them also which are without? doe ye not iudge them that are within? 13 But God iudgeth them that are without. Put away therefore from among your selues that wicked man.
  • 2 Cor 1:15 : 15 And in this confidence was I minded first to come vnto you, that ye might haue had a double grace,
  • 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 But God, that comforteth the abiect, comforted vs at the comming of Titus:
  • 2 Cor 7:8 : 8 For though I made you sorie with a letter, I repent not, though I did repent: for I perceiue that the same epistle made you sorie, though it were but for a season.
  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 Wherefore, though I wrote vnto you, I did not it for his cause that had done the wrong, neither for his cause that had the iniurie, but that our care toward you in the sight of God might appeare vnto you.