2 Corinthians 7 Cross References - Haweis

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 Give us a favourable reception: we have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. ³ I speak not for your condemnation, for I have already said, that ye are in our hearts to die and live together. ⁴ Great is my freedom of speech to you, great is my glorying over you: I am filled with consolation, I overflow with joy in all our tribulation. ⁵ For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings; within were fears. ⁶ But God that comforteth the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus: ⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith he had been comforted among you, declaring to us your fervent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more. ⁸ For if I grieved you by a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that this letter made you sorry, though but for a season. ⁹ Now I rejoice, not that ye have been made sorrowful, but that ye have sorrowed unto repentance; for ye have been made sorry in a godly manner, that ye might receive damage from us in nothing. ¹⁰ For sorrow of a godly sort worketh repentance unto salvation never to be repented of, but worldly sorrow worketh death. ¹¹ For behold this very thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner, how great diligence did it produce in you! yea, what apologizing! yea, what indignation! yea, what fear! yea, what earnest desire! yea, what zeal! yea, what vengeance! In every step ye have approved yourselves as pure in this affair. ¹² And indeed though I wrote unto you, I did it not [merely] for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause who had suffered the injury, but that our diligent attention for you might be more abundantly manifested to you in the presence of God. ¹³ Therefore we were comforted in your consolation; and exceeding abundantly the more rejoiced we in the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. ¹⁴ For if I have boasted of you to him in any thing, I am not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so our boasting of you to Titus hath been found truth. ¹⁵ And his bowels more abundantly yearn over you, when he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. ¹⁶ I rejoice therefore that in every thing I have confidence in you.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

⁴⁸ Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit.

²⁵ Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and of the dish, but within they are full of rapacity and intemperance. ²⁶ Thou blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that their outside may become clean also.

³⁹ Then said the Lord unto him, Now ye Pharisees make the outside of the cup and of the dish clean, but your inward parts are full of extortion and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Ye senseless men! did not he who made that which is without, make also that which is within?

³¹ Then had the churches peace through all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, being edified; and walking in the fear of God, and in the consolation of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

²⁰ But the law was introduced, that the offence might be more abundant. But where sin had abounded, there hath grace abounded more exceedingly:

²⁰ For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

²⁰ for all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us.

¹⁷ "Wherefore go forth from the midst of them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you, ¹⁸ and I will be as a father unto you, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

³ among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

¹² for the perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ: ¹³ until we all attain in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a state of complete manhood, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

¹² Not that I have already attained, or am now perfect: but I pursue, that I may overtake that for which also by his apprehension of me I am destined by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before, ¹⁴ I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let as many of us therefore as are perfect, be thus minded: and if ye entertain any other sentiment, God also will unveil this unto you.

¹³ to the end that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

⁷ For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

²³ Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men, ¹² instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day; ¹³ expecting the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; ¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

¹ LET us fear then lest, though a promise be left of entering into his rest, any one of you should appear to fail of obtaining it.

²³ and to the general assembly and church of the first-born registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men perfected,

²⁸ Wherefore receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we hold fast the grace, by which we can offer to God acceptably divine service, with reverence and pious awe:

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Make clean your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

²² Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered a little while, himself perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

⁴ whereby superlatively great and precious promises are freely given to us: that by these ye might become partakers of a divine nature, having fled far away from the corruption that is in the world through inordinate concupiscence.— ⁵ And for this very purpose employing the greatest diligence, lead up in the train of your faith courage; and with courage intelligence; ⁶ and with intelligence moderation; and with moderation patience; and with patience piety; ⁷ and with piety fraternal affection; and with fraternal affection love. ⁸ For if these things are in your possession, and abounding, they will render you neither inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ but if we walk in the light, as he is himself in the light, we have communion with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

⁹ If we confess our sins, faithful is he and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

³ And every one who hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

¹⁴ And whosoever shall not receive you, nor attend to your discourses, go out of that house, or city, and shake off the dust of your feet.

⁴⁰ He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

⁸ And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they welcome you, eat whatever is set before you:

³³ The silver, or gold, or apparel of no man have I coveted:

¹⁸ For such are not servants to our Lord Jesus Christ, but to their own belly; and by smooth speeches and flattering commendations deceive the hearts of the guileless.

¹² For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and peculiarly towards you.

² but have renounced all shameful secret practices, not conducting ourselves with artifice, nor deceitfully disguising the word of God, but by clear manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience as in the presence of God.

³ Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: ⁴ but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, ⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, ⁷ by the word of truth, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left,

¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. ¹³ Let us have a like return; I speak as unto children; be ye also enlarged.

⁹ And when I was with you, and in want, I was burdensome to no man; for my want the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and on every occasion I have kept myself from being burdensome, and will keep myself.

¹⁶ I repeat it again, Let no man suppose that I am a fool; but if otherwise, then as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little.

¹⁴ Lo! I hold myself ready the third time to come unto you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up treasure for their parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. ¹⁶ But admit it, I was not burdensome to you: but being crafty, I caught you with guile. ¹⁷ Did I make a gain of you by any one individual whom I sent unto you? ¹⁸ I entreated Titus [to go to you], and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and honourably treat those that are such:

¹⁰ There salute you Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner, and Mark nephew to Barnabas, concerning whom ye have received injunctions; if he come unto you, receive him,

³ And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile; ⁴ but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts. ⁵ For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness: ⁶ not seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, though we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and faultlessly we conducted ourselves among you that believe:

⁷ For ye yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, ⁸ neither did we eat bread with any man unpaid for, but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might be burdensome to none of you: ⁹ not that we have not such power, but that we might be ourselves an example for you to imitate.

¹² whom I have sent back; thou therefore receive him, even as my own bowels:

¹⁷ If therefore thou holdest me a sharer with thee, receive him as myself.

¹⁰ If any person come unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house, nor say to him, Welcome.

⁸ We therefore ought to assist such men, that we may become fellow-labourers in the truth. ⁹ I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who affects pre-eminence over them, receiveth us not. ¹⁰ Therefore if I come I will remember his works which he doth, with wicked words prating against us; and not content with these things, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those who are willing he hindereth, and casteth them out of the church.

¹⁴ I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you. ¹⁵ For though ye may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus through the Gospel I have begotten you.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you. ⁵ Now if any person hath given cause for grief, he hath not grieved me [merely], but partly all of you; that I may add no farther burden.

² Ye are our letter written in our hearts, acknowledged and read of all men:

¹¹ Our mouth is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart is enlarged. ¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

¹² And indeed though I wrote unto you, I did it not [merely] for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause who had suffered the injury, but that our diligent attention for you might be more abundantly manifested to you in the presence of God.

¹¹ Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth.

¹⁵ And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

¹⁰ For this cause, though absent, I have written these things, that when I am present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

⁸ For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. ⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding;

⁸ So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.

⁴¹ Then they went rejoicing from the presence of the sanhedrim, that for his name's sake, they had been counted worthy to suffer this injurious treatment.

³ And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience;

⁴ I give thanks to my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which hath been given you in Christ Jesus;

⁴ who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we might be able to comfort those who are in all tribulation, by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

¹⁴ As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your glory, as also ye are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁴ But thanks be to God, who causeth us always to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

¹² Having therefore such a hope, we use much freedom of speech.

¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. ¹¹ Our mouth is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart is enlarged.

⁶ But God that comforteth the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus: ⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith he had been comforted among you, declaring to us your fervent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

²⁴ Therefore shew unto them, and in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our [just] boasting in you.

² For I know your readiness of mind, for which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia had made preparation a year ago; and your zeal hath stirred up very many. ³ But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying in you might not be vain in this matter; that as I have said, ye may be prepared. ⁴ Lest haply if the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say, you) may be confounded in this confidence of boasting. I

¹ NOW I Paul myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who, when present, am indeed lowly among you, but being absent, am bold towards you. ² But I pray, that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I purpose to act resolutely against some who think of us, as if we walked after the flesh.

²¹ I speak with reference to the reproach [cast on me], as though we were feeble; but wherein any man is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

¹⁹ and for me that there may be given unto me utterance to open my mouth with boldness, to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

²⁰ according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.

¹⁷ Yea, and should I become the victim, in the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,

² But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

⁷ for this cause we have felt consolation, brethren, in you under all our tribulation and distress, because of your fidelity. ⁸ For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. ⁹ For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

² My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials;

²⁸ Come to me, all who labour hard, and sustain heavy burdens, and I will give you relief. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest to your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

¹ THEN after the tumult was quieted, Paul called to him the disciples, and taking his leave, departed to go into Macedonia.

³¹ I solemnly declare by all the joy over you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

⁵ Now I will come unto you when I have passed through Macedonia (for I am passing through Macedonia);

¹⁶ and through you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia return unto you, and by you to be forwarded on my journey towards Judea. ¹⁷ Such then being my intention, did I indeed change it with levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose after the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?

³ And I have written unto you for this very purpose, that I might not, when I come to you, have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

⁹ For to this end also have I written, that I may know by this proof of you if ye are obedient in all things.

¹³ I had no test in my spirit on my not finding there Titus my brother: so taking my leave of them I went forth unto Macedonia.

⁸ We are afflicted on every side, yet not reduced to extremities; under difficulties, yet not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, yet not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always bearing about in the body the death pangs of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who are yet alive are continually delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. ¹² Wherefore death indeed is working in us, but life in you.

²³ Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often. ²⁴ Of the Jews five times I have received forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Thrice I have been scourged with rods, once I have been stoned, thrice I have suffered shipwreck, a whole night and day I have passed in the deep; ²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in labour and travail, in watchings often, in fastings frequently, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness; ²⁸ and beside all these things from without, that accumulated burden which cometh on me daily, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is feeble, and am I not feeble? Who is offended, and am I not on fire? ³⁰ If I must glory, I will glory in the things which respect my infirmities.

²⁰ For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found of you such as ye would not: lest haply there be contentions, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: ²¹ and lest when I come to you again, my God should bow me down, and I should lament over many who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurities, and whoredom, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

¹¹ I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

¹⁹ My little children of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you, ²⁰ I wish I could be with you now, and change my address; for I am in doubt about you.

⁵ For this cause also, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your fidelity, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

⁵ Now the God of patience and consolation give you to be like-minded among each other, according to Christ Jesus:

¹⁷ I rejoice in the arrival of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus; because what was lacking from you, they have supplied. ¹⁸ For they have refreshed my spirit and yours; respect therefore such men.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all consolation; ⁴ who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we might be able to comfort those who are in all tribulation, by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

¹³ I had no test in my spirit on my not finding there Titus my brother: so taking my leave of them I went forth unto Macedonia. ¹⁴ But thanks be to God, who causeth us always to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

¹³ Therefore we were comforted in your consolation; and exceeding abundantly the more rejoiced we in the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

¹ IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

² and sent Timothy our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, that he might stablish you, and comfort you concerning your faith:

⁶ But now when Timothy returned to us from you, and brought us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye retain a kind remembrance of us always, earnestly desirous to see us, as we are also to see you: ⁷ for this cause we have felt consolation, brethren, in you under all our tribulation and distress, because of your fidelity.

¹⁶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God, and Father, who hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace, ¹⁷ comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

² Beloved, above all things I pray that thou mayest prosper, and be in sound health of body, even as thy soul prospereth. ³ I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came, and bore witness to thy truth, even as thou walkest in the truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than these tidings, that I hear my own children are walking in the truth.

⁷⁵ And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who had said unto him, Before the cock shall crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And going out, he wept bitterly.

⁴⁴ And being in an agony, he prayed with greater intenseness: and his sweat was as clots of blood falling on the ground.

²³ Who, when he arrived there, and beheld the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all, with full purpose of heart to adhere to the Lord.

¹² and that so I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and of me.

³ And I have written unto you for this very purpose, that I might not, when I come to you, have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

² For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our mansion which is from heaven;

¹⁰ For sorrow of a godly sort worketh repentance unto salvation never to be repented of, but worldly sorrow worketh death. ¹¹ For behold this very thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner, how great diligence did it produce in you! yea, what apologizing! yea, what indignation! yea, what fear! yea, what earnest desire! yea, what zeal! yea, what vengeance! In every step ye have approved yourselves as pure in this affair.

¹⁶ But thanks be to God, who put the same solicitude for you into the heart of Titus.

⁵ For though I am absent from you in person, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and beholding your regular order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

⁶ But now when Timothy returned to us from you, and brought us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye retain a kind remembrance of us always, earnestly desirous to see us, as we are also to see you:

⁸ For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

¹ FOR this reason we ought to attend more diligently to the things which have been heard, lest by any means we let them flow by us.

⁹ Be bitterly afflicted and lament, and let your tears run down; let your laughter be converted into mourning, and your joy into dejection. ¹⁰ Be humbled in the presence of God, so he will exalt you.

¹⁷ Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during three years and six months.

⁴ I rejoiced greatly that I found thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.

³ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you concerning the common salvation, I held it necessary to write unto you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints.

²¹ And as they were eating, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. ²² And exceedingly grieved, they began to say to him every one of them, Lord, am I the person?

⁶¹ And the Lord, turning round, looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, That before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. ⁶² And Peter going without, wept bitterly.

⁶ But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee! Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep.

² For if I make you sorry, who is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorrowful by me? ³ And I have written unto you for this very purpose, that I might not, when I come to you, have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you. ⁵ Now if any person hath given cause for grief, he hath not grieved me [merely], but partly all of you; that I may add no farther burden. ⁶ Sufficient for such person is that chastisement which hath been inflicted by the majority of you. ⁷ Wherefore, on the contrary, ye rather ought to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up with excess of sorrow. ⁸ Wherefore I exhort you to confirm your love towards him. ⁹ For to this end also have I written, that I may know by this proof of you if ye are obedient in all things. ¹⁰ But to whomsoever ye forgive any thing, so do I; and if I forgive any thing, to whom I forgive, for your sakes I do it, in the person of Jesus Christ, ¹¹ that no advantage be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

⁶ But God that comforteth the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus:

¹¹ For behold this very thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner, how great diligence did it produce in you! yea, what apologizing! yea, what indignation! yea, what fear! yea, what earnest desire! yea, what zeal! yea, what vengeance! In every step ye have approved yourselves as pure in this affair.

⁹ If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ Now all correction at the moment seemeth not to be cause for joy, but for sorrow; but after a while it produceth peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have thereby been disciplined.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and correct: be zealous then, and repent.

⁷ I tell you, that just so will there be joy in heaven over one repentant sinner, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons, who hold not their need of repentance.

¹⁰ Even so, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God, over one repentant sinner.

¹⁷ Then coming to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father abound with loaves of bread, and I am pining away with famine! ¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, ¹⁹ and I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hirelings. ²⁰ And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet at a considerable distance, his father discovered him, and was moved with compassion, and running, fell on his neck, and kissed him again and again. ²¹ Then said the son unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. ²² But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe, and clothe him; and put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet: ²³ and bring hither the stall-fed steer, and kill it; and let us eat, and be joyous. ²⁴ For this my son was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. And they began to be joyous.

³² But it was right that we should rejoice, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

²¹ repeatedly urging both on Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ To the one we are the odour of death unto death, to the other the odour of life unto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

⁸ Yea, and if I should boast somewhat more highly of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for your edification, and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed; ⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. ¹⁰ For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence is feeble, and his speech contemptible.

⁸ For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. ⁹ For we rejoice when we are weak, but ye are strong: and this also we pray for, even your perfect establishment. ¹⁰ For this cause, though absent, I have written these things, that when I am present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

²⁸ But what think ye? A man had two sons; and coming to the first he said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard. ²⁹ But he answering said, I will not: yet repenting afterwards, he went. ³⁰ And coming to the other, he spake after the same manner, and he replying, said, I go, sir; yet went not. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus saith to them, Verily I say unto you, That tax-gatherers and harlots shall go before you into the kingdom of God. ³² For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the tax-gatherers and harlots believed on him. But ye, when ye saw it, repented not afterwards, that ye should believe on him.

⁴ saying, I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. ⁵ And throwing down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed; and going out, hanged himself.

¹³ And the tax-gatherer standing at a distance, would not even so much as lift his eyes heaven-ward, but smote on his breast, saying, May God accept the atonement for me a sinner!

¹⁹ Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when refreshing seasons shall come from the presence of the Lord;

¹⁸ So when they heard these things they were satisfied, and glorified God, saying, Well! then hath God even to the Gentiles given repentance unto life.

²¹ and lest when I come to you again, my God should bow me down, and I should lament over many who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurities, and whoredom, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

²⁵ with meekness correcting those who are opposers, if at last God may give unto them repentance so as to submit to the conviction of the truth; ²⁶ and that they may escape out of the snare of the devil, who have been captured by him for his will.

¹⁷ For ye know, that when afterwards he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place for a change of [his father's] mind, though he sought it earnestly with tears.

²⁹ If then thine eye, the right, leads thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is highly for thy advantage, that one of thy members be destroyed, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. ³⁰ And if thy right hand leads thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is highly thy interest that one of thy members should be destroyed, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

⁵ Then looking round about on them with indignation, exceedingly grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith to the man, Stretch out thine hand; and he stretched it out: and his hand was restored sound as the other.

⁴³ And if thy hand cause thee to offend, cut it off: it were better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having both hands to go into hell, into the fire that never will be quenched: ⁴⁴ where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if thy foot cause thee to offend, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life halting, than having both feet to be cast into hell, into the fire which never can be quenched: ⁴⁶ where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into the fire of hell: ⁴⁸ where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

¹⁷ Then the disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."

¹⁶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit within him was greatly grieved, beholding the city so devoted to idolatry.

²⁰ Admitted; by unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:

¹⁸ For he who in these things is the servant of Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

² And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you.

¹³ But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away that wicked man from among yourselves.

²⁵ that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

⁶ Sufficient for such person is that chastisement which hath been inflicted by the majority of you.

⁴ but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

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

⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith he had been comforted among you, declaring to us your fervent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

⁹ Now I rejoice, not that ye have been made sorrowful, but that ye have sorrowed unto repentance; for ye have been made sorry in a godly manner, that ye might receive damage from us in nothing.

² For I know your readiness of mind, for which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia had made preparation a year ago; and your zeal hath stirred up very many.

⁷ Now I pray unto God that ye do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you may do that which is laudable, though we should be as reprobates.

²⁶ Are ye provoked; and do you not sin? let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

¹¹ And have no society with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather rebuke them.

¹² Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always been obedient, not only during my presence with you, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling work out your own salvation.

²¹ I adjure thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. ²² Lay hands hastily on no man, nor share another's sins: keep thyself pure;

¹⁵ Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.

⁸ Faithful is the saying, and of these things I wish thee firmly to testify, that they who have believed in God be careful to be pre-eminent in good works. These are becoming and advantageous to men.

¹⁵ carefully observing lest any of you fail of attaining the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it many be defiled; ¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.

¹⁷ And if ye invoke him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, conduct yourselves during the time of your sojourning with [jealous] fear:

² as new-born babes desire earnestly the unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

²³ and others save with trembling, snatching them out of the fire; though hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

¹ IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. ² And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you.

¹⁷ For we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

⁸ For if I grieved you by a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that this letter made you sorry, though but for a season.

²⁸ and beside all these things from without, that accumulated burden which cometh on me daily, the care of all the churches.

⁵ for if a man knoweth not how to order his own family, how shall he take proper care of the church of God?

¹⁵ Rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep.

³² that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you.

²⁶ And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be exalted, all the members rejoice with it.

⁵ doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil; ⁶ rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

¹³ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, be manful, be strong.

¹⁵ And his bowels more abundantly yearn over you, when he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

²⁸ I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him once more ye may rejoice, and I be less sorrowful.

¹⁶ The Lord grant mercy unto the household of Onesiphorus because he frequently was a refreshment to my soul, and was not ashamed of my chain:

²⁰ Yea, brother, I wish to have joy in thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.

⁸ Finally, be all like-minded, sympathizing, loving fraternally, compassionate, friendly hearted,

¹⁸ But as sure as God is true, our word to you was not yea and nay. ¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timotheus—was not yea and nay, but there was yea in him; ²⁰ for all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us.

⁴ Great is my freedom of speech to you, great is my glorying over you: I am filled with consolation, I overflow with joy in all our tribulation.

⁸ Yea, and if I should boast somewhat more highly of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for your edification, and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed;

⁴ so that we ourselves make our boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and fidelity under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure:

²⁹ Thereupon calling for a light, he rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas;

¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

⁵ laying low proud reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and making every thought captive to the obedience of Christ: ⁶ and holding ourselves ready to avenge every act of disobedience, when your obedience is fully proved.

⁵ Servants, be obedient to your masters after the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ;

⁸ For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

¹⁴ And if any man obey not our word by letter, mark that man, and maintain no society with him, that he may be ashamed.

¹⁷ But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

⁴ But we have confidence in the Lord towards you, that the things which we have enjoined you, ye both do, and will do.

⁸ Wherefore, though I have in Christ great liberty to enjoin thee what is becoming,

²¹ Having confidence in thy obedience, I have written unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do more than I say.