2 Corinthians 7:11

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2 Corinthians 7:11

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Summary

For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

Carefulness

2 Corinthians 7:7

1 Corinthians 12:25

Titus 3:8

Clearing

Indignation

Fear

Vehement

1 Peter 2:2

Zeal

Acts 17:16

Revenge

Approved

Bible References

Carefulness

Not, however, by his presence alone, but also by the encouragement wherewith he had been encouraged over you: recounting unto us your earnest desire, your lamentation, your zeal in my behalf. So that I the more rejoiced.

That there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have, the same, care, one for another;

Faithful, the saying! And, concerning these things, I am minded that thou be strongly affirming, in order that they who have believed God may be careful to be forward, in noble works. These things, are honourable, and profitable unto men;

Clearing

So he overtook them, - and spake unto them these words.

Whereas, them who are without, God, judgeth? Remove ye the wicked man from among, yourselves.

And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness, but, rather, be even administering reproof;

I adjure thee, before God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen messengers, that, these things, thou observe, apart from prejudgment, doing, nothing, by partiality.

Indignation

Then was kindled the anger of David against the man, fiercely, - and he said unto Nathan, By the life of Yahweh, doomed to death, is the man that hath done this;

And it angered me greatly, - when I heard their outcry, and these words.

So I contended with them, and laid a curse upon them, and I smote, from among them, certain men, and pulled out their hair, - and I put them on oath by God, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take of their daughters, for your sons nor for yourselves.

For this cause, I tremble and repent, on dust and ashes.

I have, heard, Ephraim bemoaning himself, Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised, Like a bullock, not broken in, Suffer me to return that I may return, For thou, art Yahweh my God.

Then, the king, when he heard, the matter, was sorely displeased with himself, and, upon Daniel, set his heart, to deliver him, - and, until the going in of the sun, was striving to rescue him.

And, looking round upon them with anger, being at the same time grieved on account of the hardening of their heart, he saith unto the man - Stretch forth thy hand! and he stretched it forth, and his hand, was restored.

Be ye angry, and not committing sin, let not the sun be going down upon your angry mood,

Fear

Having therefore, these, promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

Serve Yahweh with reverence, and exult with trembling:

A wise man, feareth, and avoideth evil, but, a dullard, is haughty and confident.

How happy the man who is ever circumspect, whereas, he that hardeneth his heart, shall fall into calamity.

Well: by their want of faith, they have been broken out, - and, thou, by thy faith, dost stand! - Regard not lofty things, but be afraid;

So, then, my beloved - even as ye have always obeyed, not asin my presence only, but, now, much more, in my absence, with fear and trembling, your own salvation, be working out;

Let us therefore fear, lest at any time, although there is left behind a promise of entering into his rest, - any one from amongst you should be deemed, to have come short;

Using oversight - lest any one be falling behind from the favour of God, - lest any root of bitterness, springing up above, be causing trouble, and, through it, the many, be defiled:

And, if, as Father, ye are invoking him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to each man's work, with reverence, for the time of your sojourning, behave ye;

But, on others, have mercy with fear, hating even, the garment, spotted by the flesh.

Vehement

O My Lord! before thee, is all my longing, and, my sighing, from thee, hath not been hid:

BOOK THE SECOND As, the hart, cometh panting up to the channels of water, So my soul, panteth for thee, O God.

I have hoped, O my soul, for My Lord, more than they who watch for the morning, who watch for the morning.

The desire of them who revere him, will he fulfil, and, their cry, will he hear, and will save them.

SHESet me as a seal, upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm, For, mighty as death, is love, Exacting as hades, is jealousy, - The flames thereof, are flames of fire, The flash of Yah!

Surely in the path of thy regulations, O Yahweh, we waited for thee, - Unto thy Name and unto thy Memorial, was there a longing of soul:

As new-born babes, for the pure milk that is for the mind, eagerly crave, that, thereby, ye may grow unto salvation: -

Zeal

For I know your forwardness of mind - of which, in your behalf, I am boasting unto Macedonians, that, Achaia, hath been prepared for a year past, - and, your zeal, hath stirred up the greater number of them.

Because, zeal for thy house, hath eaten me up, And, the reproaches of them who have reproached thee, have fallen upon me.

My zeal, hath put an end to me, for mine adversaries have forgotten thy words.

His disciples remembered that it was written - The zeal of thy house, eateth me up.

But, while, in Athens, Paul was expecting them, his spirit within him was being urged on, seeing how the city was given to idols.

Revenge

But, as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I humbled, with fasting, my soul, though, my prayer, unto mine own bosom, might return:

And, if, thy right eye, is causing thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee, - for it profiteth thee, that, one of thy members, should perish, and not, thy whole body, be cast into gehenna.

And, if thy hand shall cause thee to stumble, cut it off, - it is, seemly, for thee, maimed, to enter into life, rather than having, the two hands, to depart into the gehenna, into the fire that is not quenched;

I, as many as I tenderly love, I convict and put under discipline: be zealous, therefore, and repent.

Approved

But, in everything, commending ourselves as God's ministers, - in much endurance, in tribulations, in necessities, in straits,

But we pray unto God, that ye may do nothing base, - not that, we, may appear, accepted, but that, ye, the honourable thing, may be doing, even though, we, should be, as it were, rejected;

For, he that in this doeth service unto the Christ, is acceptable unto God, and approved unto men.

Give diligence, thyself, approved, to present unto God, - a workman not to be put to shame, skillfully handling the word of truth.