2 Corinthians 2:7

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Summary

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

Ye

Hebrews 12:12

Swallowed

Overmuch

General references

Leviticus 13:23

John 20:23

Bible References

Ye

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

Swallowed

For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.

Overmuch

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

General references

But if the bright mark keeps in the same place and gets no greater, it is the mark of the old wound, and the priest will say that he is clean.

Any to whom you give forgiveness, will be made free from their sins; and any from whom you keep back forgiveness, will still be in their sins.