2 Corinthians 2:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 someone is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so you also won’t be tempted.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother who walks irresponsibly and not according to the tradition received from us.

Therefore strengthen your tired hands and weakened knees,

Swallowed

Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

I am a peaceful person, one of the faithful in Israel, but you’re trying to destroy a city that is like a mother in Israel. Why would you devour the Lord’s inheritance?”

You will make them burn
like a fiery furnace when you appear;
the Lord will engulf them in His wrath,
and fire will devour them.

For the choir director: according to “A Silent Dove Far Away.” A Davidic Miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath.Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me;
he fights and oppresses me all day long.

He reaches down from heaven and saves me,
challenging the one who tramples me.Selah
God sends His faithful love and truth.

then they would have swallowed us alive
in their burning anger against us.

Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,
still healthy as they go down to the Pit.

These also stagger because of wine
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.

When this corruptible is clothed
with incorruptibility,
and this mortal is clothed
with immortality,
then the saying that is written will take place:
Death has been swallowed up

in victory.

Overmuch

For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.

A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one grief on top of another.

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

General references

But if the spot remains where it is and does not spread, it is only the scar from the boil. The priest is to pronounce him clean.

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”