2 Corinthians 12:14 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁴ Behold I am in preparation to come to you a third time, and I will not be burthensome to you. For I seek not your possessions, but yourselves. For children are not bound to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for the children.

³⁵ The Lord indeed hath blessed my master exceedingly, so that he is be 35 come great. He hath given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, men servants and maid servants, camels and asses. ³⁶ And Sarah, the wife of my master, hath born one son to my master when he was old, and he hath given him all that belonged to him.

¹⁴ In reply to which Rachel and Leia said to him, Have we any more a portion or an inheritance in our father's house? ¹⁵ Are we not accounted by him as strangers? For he hath sold us and spent the money he got for us.

³⁰ From the fruit of righteousness springeth up the tree of life: but the lives of transgressors are prematurely destroyed.

²² A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children; but the wealth of the wicked is treasured up for the righteous.

¹⁴ Fathers bequeath houses and wealth to children; but the Lord accommodateth a wife to a husband.

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel: prophesy and say to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Shepherds of Israel! Do shepherds feed themselves? Do not the shepherds feed their flocks?

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

¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but am admonishing you as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For though you may have ten thousand guides in Christ, yet you have not many fathers; for by means of the glad tidings I am your father in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ but I will come to you quickly, if it be the Lord's will, and I will know not the word, but the power of them who are puffed up.

²⁴ Let none seek barely his own interest, but every one that of his neighbour.

³³ even as I do. In all things I please all men, not studying barely my own interest, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

³⁴ and if any one is hungry let him eat at home, that you may not come together for judgment. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

⁵ Now I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, [for I am going through Macedonia]

¹⁵ And in this confidence I purposed to come to you first, that you might have a second benefit;

¹ This is the third time I am coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is to' be established. ² I told you before, and I now again forewarn you, as if I were present; being indeed absent, I now write to them who have heretofore sinned, and to all the rest, that when I come again, I will not spare.

¹ Wherefore, my brethren, my beloved, and much longed for! my joy and my crown! stand thus stedfast in the Lord, my beloved!

¹⁷ Not that I desire a gift, but I wish for the fruit which aboundeth to your account.

⁵ For never did we at any time use flattering words, as you know; nor a pretext for covetousness, God is witness; ⁶ nor were we seeking human glory either from you or from others. We might have appeared with weight as Christ's apostles;

⁸ we were willing to impart to you not only the glad tidings of God, but even our own lives, because you were dear to us.

¹¹ how, as you know, we [exhorted] every one of you, as a father would his children,

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or will be our joy, or crown of rejoicing? Will it not be you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? ²⁰ For you are our glory and our joy.

² Tend the flock of God which is among you, watching over it, not by constraint, but willingly; not with a view to sordid gain, but with a ready mind; ³ not as exercising dominion over the lots, but as being examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an unfading crown of glory.