2 Corinthians 7 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹ Wherefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit; perfecting holiness in the fear of God. ² Receive us cordially. We have injured no one; we have corrupted no one; we have defrauded no one. ³ I speak not this to condemn you; for I have said before, that you are in our hearts, to die and live with you. ⁴ Great is my freedom of speech to you; great is my boasting concerning you: I am filled with consolation, I exceedingly abound in joy in all our affliction. ⁵ For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh has no rest, but we were distressed on every side; without were fightings- within were fears. ⁶ Nevertheless, God, who comforts them who are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus- ⁷ (not, indeed, by his coming only; but more especially by the consolation with which he was comforted by you) -when he told us your earnest desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more. ⁸ Therefore, though I made you sorry by the letter, I do not repent, though I did repent; for I perceive that that letter, though suitable to the occasion, made you sorry. ⁹ I now rejoice; not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow produced reformation: for you were made to sorrow in a godly manner, that you might be injured by us in nothing. ¹⁰ For godly sorrow produces a reformation to salvation, never to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world produces death. ¹¹ Behold, now, this very thing-your being made sorry with a godly sorrow-what carefulness it wrought in you; yes, what clearing of yourselves; yes, what indignation; yes, what fear; yes, what earnest desire; yes, what zeal; yes, what revenge! Upon the whole, you have showed yourselves to be pure in this matter. ¹² And, indeed, though I wrote to you, it was not for his sake who did the wrong, nor for his sake who suffered it; but rather, that our care for you, in the presence of God might be manifested to you. ¹³ For this reason, we were comforted in your comfort: yes, we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. ¹⁴ That if I have boasted anything to him concerning you, I am not ashamed: for, as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so, also, our boasting to Titus is verified. ¹⁵ And his tender affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, and how you received him with fear and trembling. ¹⁶ I rejoice that I have confidence in you in everything.

⁴ Happy they who mourn; for they shall receive consolation!

⁸ Happy the pure in heart; for they shall see God!

²⁹ Therefore, if your right eye ensnare you, pluck it out, and throw it away: it is better for you to lose one of your members, than that your whole body be cast into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand ensnare you, cut it off and throw it away: it is better for you to lose one of your members, than that your whole body be cast into hell.

⁴⁸ Be you therefore perfect, as your father who is in heaven is perfect.

¹⁴ Wheresoever they will not receive you, nor regard your words, in departing that house or city, shake the dust off your feet.

⁴⁰ He that receives you, receives me; and he that receives me, receives him who sent me, receives him who sent me.

²⁸ Come to me, all you who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and be taught by me; for I am meek and condescending: and your souls shall find relief. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

³³ Either call the tree good, and its fruit good; or call the tree bad, and its fruit bad: for we distinguish the tree by its fruit.

²⁸ But what do you think of this? A man had two sons, and addressing his elder son, said, Son, go work today in any vineyard. ²⁹ He answered, I will not, but afterward repented and went. ³⁰ Then addressing the younger, he bade him likewise. He answered, Immediately, Sir, but went not. ³¹ Now, which of the two obeyed his father? They said, The first. Jesus replied, Indeed, I say to you, even the publicans and harlots show you the way into the kingdom of God. ³² For John came to you in the way of sanctity, and you believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: yet you who saw this, did not afterward repent and believe him.

²⁵ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you cleanse the outside of those cups and platters, which within are laid with rapine and iniquity. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! begin with cleansing the inside of the cup, and of the platter, if you would make even the outside clean.

²¹ and while they were eating, he said, Indeed, I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up. ²² And they were extremely sorrowful, and began every one of them to say, Master, is it I?

⁷⁵ Then Peter remembered the word, which Jesus had said to him, Before the cock crow, you will thrice disown me. And he went out an wept bitterly.

⁴ said, I have sinner, in that I have betrayed the innocent. They answered, What is that to us? See you to that. ⁵ After which, having thrown down the money in the temple, he went away, and strangled himself.

³¹ I solemnly declare, by your rejoicing, what I also have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that every day I die.

⁵ Now, I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia, (for I do pass through Macedonia;)

¹³ Watch; stand fast in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.

¹⁷ I am glad of the coming of Stephanus, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for they have supplied your deficiency, ¹⁸ and have refreshed my spirit and yours; wherefore, acknowledge such persons.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies, and the God of all consolation!

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you, as sojourners and travelers, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

⁸ Finally, be all of one mind, sympathizing, lovers of the brethren, tender-hearted, courteous-

⁵ And looking around on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their minds, he said to the man, Stretch out your hand: and as he stretched out his hand, it was restored.

⁴³ Moreover, if your hand ensnare you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter maimed into life, than having two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire; ⁴⁴ where their worm dies not, and their fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if your foot ensnare you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter lame into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire; ⁴⁶ where their worm dies not, and their fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if your eye ensnare you, pull it out; it is better for you to enter one-eyed into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire; ⁴⁸ where their worm dies not, and their fire is not quenched.

⁸ And whatever city you enter, if they receive you, eat such things as are set before you;

³⁹ Then the Lord said to him, As for you, Pharisees, you cleanse the outside of your cups and dishes, while you yourselves are inwardly full of rapacity and malevolence. ⁴⁰ Unthinking men! did not he who made the outside, make the inside also?

⁷ Thus, I assure you, there is greater joy in heaven for one sinner who reforms, than for ninety-nine righteous persons, who need no reformation.

¹⁰ Such joy, I assure you, have the angels of God, when any sinner reforms.

¹⁷ At length, coming to himself, he said, How many hirelings has my father, who have all more bread than suffices them, while I perish with hunger! ¹⁸ I will arise, and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, ¹⁹ and am no longer worthy to be called your son. ²⁰ And he arose, and went to his father. When he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and threw himself upon his neck, and kissed him. ²¹ And the son said, Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, and am no longer worthy to be called your son. ²² But the father said to his servants, Bring here the principal robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger, and shoes on his feet: ²³ bring also the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and be merry; ²⁴ for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. So they began to be merry.

³² it was but reasonable that we should rejoice and be merry; because this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

¹³ But the publican, standing at a distance, and not daring so much as to lift up his eyes to heaven, smote his breast, and cried, God, be merciful to me a sinner.

⁴⁴ And being in an agony of grief, he prayed the more fervently, and his sweat fell like clotted blood to the ground.

⁶¹ Then the Lord, turning, looked upon Peter, and Peter called to mind the word which the Lord had said to him, Before the cock crow, you will disown me thrice. ⁶² And he went out and wept bitterly.

¹⁷ (Then his disciples remembered these words of the scripture, "My zeal for thy house consumes me.")

¹⁶ and I will entreat the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to continue with you forever;

⁶ But because of those things which I have foretold you, you are overwhelmed with grief.

¹⁷ A third time he said, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter, grieved at his asking this question a third time, answered, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus replied, Feed my sheep.

¹⁹ Reform, therefore, and return to God, that so your sins may be blotted out; that seasons of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord,

⁴¹ And they departed from the presence of the Sanhedrim. rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be exposed to infamy for the sake of his name.

³¹ Then the congregations though all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, being edified, had rest; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the admonition of the Holy Spirit, were multiplied.

¹⁸ And when they heard these things, they acquiesced, and glorified God; saying, God has, then, given to the Gentile also reformation to life.

²³ Who, when he was come, and beheld the favor of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all to adhere to the Lord, with full determination of heart;

²⁹ And he called for lights, and sprung in; and, being in a tremor, fell down before Paul and Silas;

¹⁶ Now, while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit within him was strongly moved when he beheld the city enslaved to idolatry.

¹ Now, after the tumult was ceased, Paul, calling the disciples to him: and embracing them, departed to go into Macedonia.

²¹ testifying both to the Jews and Greeks, reformation with respect to God, and faith with respect to our Lord Jesus Christ.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

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

³ and not only so, but we rejoice even in afflictions; knowing that affliction produces patience;

²⁰ Moreover, the law supervened, that the offense might abound; but where sin abounded, favor superabounded-

²⁰ True: by unbelief they were broken off, and you by faith, stand. Be not high-minded, but fear.

¹⁵ Rejoice with them who rejoice, and weep with them who weep.

¹⁸ And he who, by these things, serves Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

⁵ Now, may the God who gives patience and admonition, give to you mutual unity of sentiment, according to Christ Jesus.

³² that in joy I may come to you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed among you.

¹⁸ For they who are such, do not serve out Lord Jesus, but their own belly; and by flattery and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple.

⁴ I give thanks to my God always in respect of you; on account of the favor of God, which was given to you through Jesus Christ;

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

¹ It is generally reported that there is incest among you; and such incest as is not even among the heathens-that one has his father's wife. ² And you are puffed up, and have not rather bewailed, so that he who has done this work might be taken from among you.

² And you are puffed up, and have not rather bewailed, so that he who has done this work might be taken from among you.

¹³ But them are without, God judges. Therefore, put away from among yourselves the wicked person.

²⁰ Besides, you are not your own; for you are bought with a price: therefore, with your body glorify God.

²⁵ That there may be no schism in the body; but, that the members may have the very same anxious care, one for another. ²⁶ So, whether one member suffer, all the members sympathize; or, one member be honored, all the members rejoice together.

⁵ does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but greatly rejoices in the truth: ⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁴ who comforts us in all out affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, by the consolation with which they are comforted of God.

⁴ who comforts us in all out affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, by the consolation with which they are comforted of God.

¹² For this is our glorying-the testimony of our conscience, that with godly simplicity and sincerity, (not with fleshly wisdom, but by the favor of God,) we have behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly among you.

¹⁴ seeing, indeed, you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁶ and from you to pass through into Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come again to you, and by you to be sent forward into Judea. ¹⁷ Having, then, purposed this, did I, indeed, use levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh; so that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no? ¹⁸ But as God is faithful, certainly our word, which was to you, was not yes and no. ¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed to you by us, even by me and Sylvanus, and Timothy, was not yes and no; but in him was yes. ²⁰ And whatever promises are of God, were through him yes, and through him amen, to the glory of God, by us.

²⁰ And whatever promises are of God, were through him yes, and through him amen, to the glory of God, by us.

² For if I should make you sorry, who then is he that could make me glad, unless the same who is made sorry by me? ³ Wherefore, I wrote to you this very thing, that, coming, I might not have sorrow from them in whom I ought to rejoice; being firmly persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

³ Wherefore, I wrote to you this very thing, that, coming, I might not have sorrow from them in whom I ought to rejoice; being firmly persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

³ Wherefore, I wrote to you this very thing, that, coming, I might not have sorrow from them in whom I ought to rejoice; being firmly persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not that you might be made sorry, but that you might know the love which I have most abundantly toward you.

⁴ For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not that you might be made sorry, but that you might know the love which I have most abundantly toward you.

⁴ For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not that you might be made sorry, but that you might know the love which I have most abundantly toward you. ⁵ Now, if a certain person has grieved me, he has not grieved me except by a part of you, that I may not lay a load on you all.

⁵ Now, if a certain person has grieved me, he has not grieved me except by a part of you, that I may not lay a load on you all. ⁶ Sufficient for such a one is the punishment, which was inflicted by the majority.

⁶ Sufficient for such a one is the punishment, which was inflicted by the majority. ⁷ So that, on the other hand, you ought more willingly to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one should be swallowed up by excessive grief. ⁸ Wherefore, I beseech you to confirm your love to him. ⁹ For to this end, also, I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

⁹ For to this end, also, I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things. ¹⁰ Now, to whom you forgive anything, I also forgive: and even I, if I have now forgiven anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it, in the person of Christ: ¹¹ that we may not be overreached by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

¹³ I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus, my brother: therefore, bidding them farewell, I went away into Macedonia.

¹³ I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus, my brother: therefore, bidding them farewell, I went away into Macedonia. ¹⁴ Now, thanks be to God, who at all times causes us to triumph in Christ; and who, by us, diffuses the odor of the knowledge of him in every place:

¹⁴ Now, thanks be to God, who at all times causes us to triumph in Christ; and who, by us, diffuses the odor of the knowledge of him in every place:

¹⁶ To these, indeed, we are the odor of death, ending in death; but to the others, the odor of life, ending in life: and who is competent to these things? ¹⁷ However, we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but really from sincerity, yes, really from God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

² You are out letter, written on our hearts, known and read of all men.

¹² Having, therefore, such confidence, we use great plainness of speech;

² but have commanded away the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

⁸ We are pressed on every side, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not utterly forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. ¹⁰ At all times carrying about in the body, the putting to death of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So that death works in us, but life in you.

² For, indeed, in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be invested with our heavenly mansion.

³ giving no cause of offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed. ⁴ But by everything approving ourselves as ministers of God, by much patience, by oppressions, by necessities, by distresses,

⁴ But by everything approving ourselves as ministers of God, by much patience, by oppressions, by necessities, by distresses, ⁵ by stripes, by imprisonments, by tumults, by labors, by watchings, by fastings; ⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by goodness, by a holy spirit, by love unfeigned; ⁷ by the word of truth, by the power of God, through the armor of righteousness of the right hand and of the left;

¹⁰ as sorrowing, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things. ¹¹ Corinthians! our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.

¹¹ Corinthians! our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. ¹² You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels.

¹² You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels.

¹² You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels. ¹³ Now, in return, (I speak as to children,) be you also enlarged.

¹⁷ Wherefore, come out from among them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch no unclean person; and I will receive you; ¹⁸ and I be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."

¹ Wherefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit; perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

⁴ Great is my freedom of speech to you; great is my boasting concerning you: I am filled with consolation, I exceedingly abound in joy in all our affliction.

⁶ Nevertheless, God, who comforts them who are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus-

⁶ Nevertheless, God, who comforts them who are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus- ⁷ (not, indeed, by his coming only; but more especially by the consolation with which he was comforted by you) -when he told us your earnest desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

⁷ (not, indeed, by his coming only; but more especially by the consolation with which he was comforted by you) -when he told us your earnest desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more. ⁸ Therefore, though I made you sorry by the letter, I do not repent, though I did repent; for I perceive that that letter, though suitable to the occasion, made you sorry. ⁹ I now rejoice; not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow produced reformation: for you were made to sorrow in a godly manner, that you might be injured by us in nothing. ¹⁰ For godly sorrow produces a reformation to salvation, never to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world produces death. ¹¹ Behold, now, this very thing-your being made sorry with a godly sorrow-what carefulness it wrought in you; yes, what clearing of yourselves; yes, what indignation; yes, what fear; yes, what earnest desire; yes, what zeal; yes, what revenge! Upon the whole, you have showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

¹¹ Behold, now, this very thing-your being made sorry with a godly sorrow-what carefulness it wrought in you; yes, what clearing of yourselves; yes, what indignation; yes, what fear; yes, what earnest desire; yes, what zeal; yes, what revenge! Upon the whole, you have showed yourselves to be pure in this matter. ¹² And, indeed, though I wrote to you, it was not for his sake who did the wrong, nor for his sake who suffered it; but rather, that our care for you, in the presence of God might be manifested to you. ¹³ For this reason, we were comforted in your comfort: yes, we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

¹⁵ And his tender affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, and how you received him with fear and trembling.

¹⁶ Now thanks be to God, who has put the same earnest care concerning you, into the heart of Titus.

²⁴ Wherefore, the proof of your love, and of our boasting concerning you, display before them, and before the face of the congregations.

² For I know your willingness: of which I boasted on your behalf, to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared since the last year; and your zeal has stirred up the multitude.

² For I know your willingness: of which I boasted on your behalf, to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared since the last year; and your zeal has stirred up the multitude. ³ Yet I have sent the brethren, that our boasting concerning you, may not be rendered false in this particular; but that as I said you may be prepared. ⁴ Lest, perhaps, if the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not you) should be put to shame by this confidence.

¹ Now, I (the same Paul who, when present, indeed, am humble among you; but when absent, am bold toward you,) ² beseech you, by the mildness and clemency of Christ. And I request that, when present I may not be bold with that confidence with which I conclude to be bold against some, who conclude us to be really persons who walk according to the flesh.

⁵ overturning reasonings, and every high thing raised up against the knowledge of God; and leading captive every thought to the obedience of Christ; ⁶ and are prepared to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is completed.

⁸ And, therefore, I should not be ashamed, if I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the Lord has given us for your edification, and not for your destruction.

⁸ And, therefore, I should not be ashamed, if I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the Lord has given us for your edification, and not for your destruction. ⁹ That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters; ¹⁰ (for his letters, says one, are indeed weighty and strong; but his bodily presence weak, and his speech contemptible;)

⁹ for being present with you, and in want, we were burdensome to no one; but what I wanted, the brethren from Macedonia supplied: and in everything I have kept, and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.

¹¹ For what reason? because I do not love you? God knows.

¹⁶ Moreover, I say, let no one think me a fool; but, if otherwise, at least, as a fool, bear with me, that I also may boast a little.

²¹ I speak of reproach, as, that we are weak. But, in whatever any one is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool,) I am above them: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; ²⁴ of the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one: ²⁵ thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stone, thrice I was ship-wrecked: I have spent a night and a day in the deep. ²⁶ In journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the heathens, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brethren. ²⁷ In labor and toil; in watching often; in hunger and thirst; in fastings often; in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Besides these troubles from without, that which is my daily pressure, the anxious care of all the congregations.

²⁸ Besides these troubles from without, that which is my daily pressure, the anxious care of all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn? ³⁰ If I must boast, I will boast of the things which relate to my weakness.

¹⁴ Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you; because I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ Yes, I most gladly will spend and be spent for the sake of your souls; even though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

¹⁵ Yes, I most gladly will spend and be spent for the sake of your souls; even though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. ¹⁶ Be it so, then, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile! ¹⁷ With respect to any one of them I sent to you, did I by him make gain of you? ¹⁸ I besought Titus to go to you; and with him I sent a brother: did Titus make any gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

²⁰ Yet I am afraid, lest, perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish: and that I shall be found by you, such as you do not wish: -lest, perhaps, there be among you strifes, emulations, wraths, brawlings, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults. ²¹ And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you; and I shall bewail many, who have formerly sinned, and have not reformed from the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

²¹ And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you; and I shall bewail many, who have formerly sinned, and have not reformed from the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

⁷ However, I pray to God that you do no evil-not that we may appear approved; but that you may do what is good, though, indeed, we should be disapproved. ⁸ For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. ⁹ Therefore we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong: and this, also, we pray for, even your perfection. ¹⁰ For this reason, being absent, I write these things, that, when present, I may not act sharply, according to the power which the Lord has give me for edification, and not for destruction.

¹⁰ For this reason, being absent, I write these things, that, when present, I may not act sharply, according to the power which the Lord has give me for edification, and not for destruction.

¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest perhaps, I have labored in vain among you.

¹⁹ My little children, for whom I travail in birth again till Christ be formed in you; ²⁰ I could wish, indeed, to be present with you now, and to change my speech; for I am exceedingly in doubt concerning you.

³ amongst whom we, also, were all formerly conversant in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

¹² for the adapting of these saints to the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ: ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God; to a perfect man; to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

²⁶ Do not sin, through anger; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

⁵ Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the integrity of your heart, as to Christ.

¹⁹ especially for me, that eloquence may be given me in opening my mouth with boldness, to make known the secret of the gospel; ²⁰ for which I execute the office of an ambassador in a chain; that I may speak boldly concerning it, as it becomes me to speak.

⁸ for God is my witness how vehemently I long after you all, with the tender affections of Jesus Christ.

⁸ for God is my witness how vehemently I long after you all, with the tender affections of Jesus Christ. ⁹ And this I pray, that your love may yet abound more and more, with knowledge and with all discretion;

²⁰ that agreeably to my earnest expectation and hope, in nothing I shall be ashamed; but that with all boldness, as at all times, so now, also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

¹ Wherefore, if there be any consolation in Christ; if any comfort of love; if any fellowship of the Spirit; if any sympathies and tender mercies,

¹² Wherefore, my beloved, since you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence; effectually work out your own salvation, with fear and trembling;

¹⁷ Yes, and if I be made a drink-offering upon the sacrifice and ministry of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all;

²⁸ Wherefore I have sent him the more speedily, that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the more free from sorrow. ²⁹ Receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and have such persons in great estimation;

¹² Not that I have already laid hold, or have already become perfect; but I press on, that, indeed, I may lay hold on that, for which, also, I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have laid hold of the prize; but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching forth toward the things before, ¹⁴ I press on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God, by Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us, then, as many as would be perfect, be thus minded; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.

²⁴ I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and fill up the remainder of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the congregation;

⁵ For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

¹² Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering.

¹⁰ Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, salutes you; and Mark, the nephew of Barnabas, concerning whom you go orders: if he come to you, receive him-

² For although we had before suffered, and were shamefully handled, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold, through our God, to speak to you the gospel of God, amidst a great combat. ³ Besides, our exhortation was not from error, nor from impurity, nor with guile. ⁴ But as we were approved of God, to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts. ⁵ For neither did we, at any time, use flattering words, or a pretext for covetousness; God is witness. ⁶ Neither sought we honor from men; neither from you, nor from others. We might have acted with authority, as Apostles of Christ;

⁸ so, having a strong affection for you, we were well pleased to have imparted to you, not only the gospel of God, but our own souls, also; because you were become dear to us.

¹⁰ You were witnesses, and God, also, in what a holy, and just, and blameless manner, we acted toward you that believe.

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

² and sent Timothy, our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort you concerning your faith:

⁵ For this reason also, no longer concealing my anxiety, I sent to know your faith; lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labor have become in vain. ⁶ But now, when Timothy came to us from you, and gave us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us at all times, ardently desiring to see us, even as we also to see you;

⁶ But now, when Timothy came to us from you, and gave us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us at all times, ardently desiring to see us, even as we also to see you; ⁷ by this, brethren, we were comforted concerning you in all our affliction and necessity, even by your faith.

⁷ by this, brethren, we were comforted concerning you in all our affliction and necessity, even by your faith. ⁸ For now we live, when you stand firm in the Lord.

⁸ For now we live, when you stand firm in the Lord. ⁹ But what thanksgiving can we return to God concerning you, for all the joy with which we rejoice, through you, in the presence of our God?

¹³ that he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness, before God, even our Father, at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.

⁷ for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

²³ And may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole person, the spirit, and the soul, and the body, be preserved unblameable, till the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ so that we ourselves boast of you to the congregations of God, on account of your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions, which you endure;

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us, and given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through favor, ¹⁷ comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

⁴ For we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do, and will do, the things which we command you.

⁷ For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us-that we did not walk disorderly among you; ⁸ but with labor and toil we wrought night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you. ⁹ Not because we have not a right, but that we might give ourselves to you for a pattern, to imitate us.

¹⁴ Now, if one do not obey our command in this letter, point out that man, and keep no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

⁵ for if one know not how to govern his own house; how shall he take care of the congregation of God?

²¹ I charge you, in the presence of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. ²² Impose hands hastily on no one, neither partake of other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

¹⁵ Strive to exhibit yourself to God an approved workman, irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of truth.

²⁵ in meekness instructing those who set themselves in opposition; if, by any means God will give them reformation to the acknowledgment of truth; ²⁶ and they may awake up out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

¹¹ For the favor of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men; ¹² teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world- ¹³ expecting the blessed hope; namely, the appearing of the glory of the great God, and of our 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.

⁸ This doctrine is true: and concerning these, I charge you to affirm strongly, that those who have believed in God, be studious to stand foremost in good works. These are things that are honorable and profitable to men.

⁸ Wherefore, thought I might be bold in Christ, to enjoin you what is fit;

¹² whom I have sent back: do you, therefore, receive him as an object of my tenderest affection;

¹⁷ If, then, you hold me as a partner, receive him as myself.

²⁰ I beseech you brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord- gratify my tender affections for Christ's sake. ²¹ Having confidence in your obedience, I have written to you, knowing that you will even do more than I ask.

¹ (On this account, we ought to attend the more earnestly to the things which were heard; lest at any time we should left them slip.

¹ Wherefore, let us be afraid, lest a promise of entrance into the rest, being left, any of you should seem to fall short of it.

⁹ Farther, we have had fathers of our flesh, who chastised us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they, indeed, during a very few days, chastised us according to their pleasure; but he, for our advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ Now, no chastisement, indeed, for the present, seems to be matter of joy, but of sorrow. Nevertheless, afterward it returns the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are trained by it.

¹⁵ carefully observing, lest any one come short of the favor of God; lest some bitter root springing up, trouble you, and by it many be polluted; ¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who, for one meal, gave away his birthrights. ¹⁷ And you know, that although afterward he wished to inherit the blessing, he was reprobated: for he found no scope for effecting a change, though he earnestly sought it with tears.

²³ to the general assembly and congregation of the first-born, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²⁸ Wherefore, we having received a kingdom not shaken, let us have gratitude, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and religious fear.

² My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into diverse trials;

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you men of two minds. ⁹ Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep; and let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sadness. ¹⁰ Be humble in the presence of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

¹⁷ Elias was a man frail and mortal like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

¹⁷ And seeing you call on the Father, who, without respect of persons, judges according to every man's work-pass the time of your sojourning here, in fear;

²² Wherefore, having purified your souls by obeying the truth, through the Spirit, to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another, from a pure heart, fervently:

² as newborn babes, earnestly desire the unadulterated milk of the word, that you may grow by it.

¹⁰ And may the God of all favor, who has called us to his eternal glory, by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, himself make you complete; support, strengthen, establish you:

⁴ On account of which, the greatest and most precious promises are freely given to us, that by these we might be made partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world, through lust. ⁵ And for this very reason, indeed, giving all diligence, add to your faith, courage; and to courage, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love: ⁸ for these things being in you, and abounding, make you to be neither slothful, nor unfruitful, in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light; we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ the Son cleanses us from all sin.

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

³ And every one who has this hope in him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

¹⁷ Whoever, therefore, has the goods of this world, and sees his brother in need, and yet shuts up his compassion from him, how abides the love of God in him?

⁴ I rejoiced greatly, when I found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.

¹⁰ If any one come to you, and bring not this doctrine; receive him not into your house, nor wish him success:

² Beloved, I pray, that with respect to all things, you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. ³ For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came, and bore witness to your truth, even as you walk in truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than that which I have when I hear my children are walking in truth.

⁸ We, therefore, ought to entertain such, that we may be joint laborers in the truth. ⁹ I wrote to the congregation: but Diotrephes, who affects a pre-eminence among them, does not receive us. ¹⁰ For this cause, when I come, I will bring his deeds to remembrance, which he practices-prating against us with malicious words; and, not content with this, he does not himself receive the brethren, and forbids them who would, and casts them out of the congregation.

³ Beloved, making all haste to write to you, concerning the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith formerly delivered to the saints.

²³ but others, save by fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and correct; therefore, be zealous, and reform.