2 Corinthians 7:12 Cross References - Noyes

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 It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife. ² And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he that committed this deed might be separated from among you.

³ And I wrote about this very matter, that I might not on my coming have sorrow from those who ought to gladden me, having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have for you.

⁹ For to this end also I wrote, that I might know by putting it to the proof, whether ye are obedient in all things.

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

⁸ For though I caused you sorrow with the letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I perceive that that letter caused you sorrow, though it was but for a short time.

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

²⁸ Besides the other troubles, there is that which presseth upon me daily, the anxiety for all the churches.

⁵ for if a man knoweth not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God