2 Corinthians 7:8 Cross References - Living_Oracles

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.

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?

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.

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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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.

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