2 Corinthians 11:29

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2 Corinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

Is weak

And i burn

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Bible References

Is weak

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.

For even [when] we arrived in Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were afflicted in every [way]--quarrels outside, fears within.

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.

After finishing these things the officials approached me saying, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated from the people of the lands with their detestable things, and from the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat {forever}, in order that I may not cause my brother to sin.

To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all [things] to all [people], in order that by all means I may save some.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with [it].

Carry the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Because of this, I also, [when I] could endure [it] no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter tempted you and our labor should be in vain.

And i burn

For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

And behold, a man from the {Israelites} came and brought to his brothers Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of all of the community of the {Israelites}, and they [were] weeping [at] the doorway of the tent of assembly.

I was very angry when I heard their shouts and these words.

In those days I saw in Judah [people] treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps [of grain] and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing [it all] to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food.

His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.

I say [this] to your shame. So is there not anyone wise among you who will be able to render a decision between his brothers?

For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have [anything]? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise [you]!

Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that [there] is no resurrection of the dead?

not that [there] is a different [gospel], except there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

Now [this was] because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed [as] having been crucified?

But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing!

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into [your] house and do not speak a greeting to him,

Dear friends, [although I] was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered [it] a necessity to write to you to encourage [you] to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints.

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

'I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!

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Then they mourned and wept and fasted over Saul and Jonathan his son until the evening, [as well] as over the people of Yahweh and over the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword.

And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,

just as I also please all [people] in all [things], not seeking my own benefit, but the [benefit] of the many, in order that they may be saved.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with [it].

For if I [cause] you sorrow, then who will make me glad except the one who is caused to be sad by me?

each of you not looking out for {your own interests}, but also each of you [for] {the interests} of others.