2 Corinthians 6:6

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Summary

2 Corinthians 6:6

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Pureness

Titus 2:7

Knowledge

Long suffering

2 Timothy 4:2

By the

1 Peter 1:12

Love

Bible References

Pureness

Make room for us; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we defrauded no one.

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and unblamably we behaved toward you who believe;

Let no one despise your youth; but become a model for believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

the elder women, as mothers: younger, as sisters, in all purity.

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity,

Knowledge

because it is the God Who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," Who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And, though I be rude in speech, yet am I not rude in knowledge; but in every way having manifested it toward you in all things.

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God;

respecting which ye can, by reading, perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, cease not praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

in Whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden away.

Long suffering

Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

with all humility and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

But you did closely follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience,

preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.

By the

being made manifest that ye are Christ's epistle ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For, if he that comes preaches another Jesus, Whom we did not preach; or, if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different Gospel, which ye did not accept; well do ye bear with him.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, I have fully dispensed the Gospel of Christ;

And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

This only do I wish to learn of you: Did ye receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake.

to whom it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them; which things now were reported to you through those who proclaimed the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from Heaven; into which things angels desire to look carefully.

Love

For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you, through many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

Wherefore? because I do not love you? God knoweth!

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

Let love be without hypocrisy; abhorring that which is evil; cleaving to that which is good;

Having purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart earnestly;

Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.