2 Corinthians 5:13 Cross References - Noyes

¹³ For whether we were beside ourselves, it was for God; or whether we are in our sound mind, it is for you.

²⁴ And as he was thus speaking in his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning is making thee mad. ²⁵ But he saith, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but utter words of truth and soberness.

³ For through the grace given to me I warn every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God hath imparted to each.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christs sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are in honor, but we are despised. ¹¹ Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace, ¹² and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it; ¹³ being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

¹² Although, then, I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong; but that your earnestness for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

¹ Would that ye could bear with me in a little folly! and indeed ye do bear with me.

¹⁶ I say again, let no one suppose me a fool; if otherwise, yet even as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little. ¹⁷ What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

⁶ For if I should desire to boast, I should not be a fool; for I should say the truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth from me.

¹¹ I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

⁵ because the gospel preached by us came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; as ye well know what sort of persons we became among you for your sake.

³ For our teaching is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in guile; ⁴ but as we have been regarded by God as worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts. ⁵ For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness; ⁶ nor from men sought we glory, either from you, or from others; though we might have used authority as apostles of Christ. ⁷ But we were gentle in the midst of you, even as a nurse cherisheth her own children; ⁸ so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us. ⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily, and righteously, and unblamably we conducted ourselves toward you that believe; ¹¹ as ye know how we exhorted, and encouraged, and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

¹⁰ For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with everlasting glory.