2 Corinthians 7:2 Cross References - Murdock

² Bear with us, my brethren; we have done evil to no one; we have corrupted no one; we have wronged no one.

¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you, nor hear your discourses, when ye depart from that house or that town, shake off the dust from your feet.

⁴⁰ He that entertaineth you, entertaineth me: and he that entertaineth me, entertaineth him that sent me.

⁸ And into whatever city ye enter, and they receive you; eat that which set before you.

³³ Silver, or gold, or garments, I have not coveted.

¹⁸ For they who are such, do not serve our Lord Jesus Messiah, but their own belly: and by bland speeches and good wishes, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of God, and not in the wisdom of the flesh, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you.

² But we have renounced the concealments of dishonor, and we walk not in craftiness, nor do we treat the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, we exhibit ourselves to all the consciences of men before God.

³ Give ye no occasion of offence to any one in any thing, that there may be no reproach on our ministry. ⁴ But we, in all things, would show ourselves to be the ministers of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessity, in distresses, ⁵ in scourgings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toil, in watching, in fasting; ⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by benignity, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned, ⁷ by the speaking of truth, by the energy of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left;

¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. ¹³ I speak as to my children, Pay me the debt which ye owe, and expand your love towards me.

⁹ And when I came among you and was needy, I was burdensome to none of you; for the brethren who came from Macedonia, supplied my wants: and in all things I kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.

¹⁶ Again I say, let no one think of me, as being a fool: or if otherwise, receive me as a fool, that I may glory a little.

¹⁴ Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours, but you: for children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children. ¹⁵ And cheerfully will I both pay my expenses, and also give myself for your souls; although the more I love you, the less ye love me. ¹⁶ But perhaps, though I was not burdensome to you, yet, like a cunning man, I filched from you by craftiness! ¹⁷ Was it by the hand of some other person whom I sent to you, that I pilfered from you? ¹⁸ I requested Titus, and with him I sent the brethren: did Titus pilfer any thing from you? Did we not walk in one spirit, and in the same steps?

²⁹ Receive him then in the Lord, with all joy; and hold in honor those who are such.

¹⁰ Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, saluteth you; also Marcus, an uncle's son to Barnabas, of whom ye have received directions, that if he come to you, ye may kindly receive him:

³ For our exhortation proceeded not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile: ⁴ but as we had been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who searcheth our hearts. ⁵ For at no time have we used flattering speech; as ye know; nor a cloak of cupidity, God is witness. ⁶ Neither have we sought glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been chargeable as legates of the Messiah.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how we preached to you the gospel of God, purely, and uprightly, and were blameless towards all them that believe:

⁷ For ye know how ye ought to imitate us, who did not walk wickedly among you. ⁸ Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you. ⁹ It was not because we have no authority, but that we might give you an example in ourselves, that ye might imitate us.

¹² And receive thou him, as one begotten by me.

¹⁷ If therefore thou art in fellowship with me, receive him as one of mine.

¹⁰ If any one cometh to you, and bringeth not this doctrine, entertain him not in your house, nor say to him, Joy to thee:

⁸ We therefore ought to receive such persons, that we may be aiders of the truth. ⁹ I was desirous of writing to the church; but he who loveth to be foremost among them, Diotrephes, receiveth us not. ¹⁰ Therefore, if he come, remember those his doings, that he treated us with malignant words; and this not sufficing him, he received not the brethren; and those who would receive them, he prohibited, and even ejected them from the church.