2 Corinthians 2:4 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

⁴ I wrote to you in sore trouble and distress of heart and with many tears, not to give you pain, but to let you see how intense a love I have for you.

⁴¹ When he drew near, on seeing the city, he wept over it, and said: ⁴² "Would that you had known, while yet there was time--even you--the things that make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your sight. ⁴³ For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will surround you with earthworks, and encircle you, and hem you in on all sides; ⁴⁴ They will trample you down and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know 'the time of your visitation.'"

² Bears me out when I say that there is a great weight of sorrow upon me and that my heart is never free from pain. ³ I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my Brothers-my own countrymen.

⁸ For, though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I were inclined to regret it--for I see that my letter did cause you sorrow though only for a time-- ⁹ I am glad now; not because of the sorrow it caused you, but because your sorrow brought you to repentance. For it was God's will that you should feel sorrow, in order that you should not suffer loss in any way at our hands.

¹² So, then, even though I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of the man who was wronged, but to make you conscious, in the sight of God, of your own earnest care for us. And it is this that has encouraged us.

² I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, that I might present you to the Christ a pure bride.

¹⁵ For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved?

¹⁸ For there are many--of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears--who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ.