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

1 Corinthians 5:13

Ephesians 5:11

1 Timothy 5:21

Indignation

Mark 3:5

Ephesians 4:26

Fear

Jude 1:23

Vehement

1 Peter 2:2

Zeal

2 Corinthians 9:2

John 2:17

Acts 17:16

Revenge

Matthew 5:29

Mark 9:43

Revelation 3:19

Approved

Bible References

Carefulness

and not only by his coming, but by the comfort you had given him, for he told me how you longed to see me, how sorry you were, and how you took my part, which made me happier still.

that there is no clash in the body, but its parts all alike care for one another.

This is a trustworthy teaching, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who believe in God may make it their business to do good. All this is right and beneficial to mankind.

Clearing

and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead.

I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to observe these rules without any discrimination, and to be perfectly impartial.

Indignation

And he looked around at them with anger, hurt by their obstinacy, and he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and his hand was cured.

Be angry, but do not sin. The sun must not go down upon your anger;

Fear

So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

That is true; but it was for their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you stand where you do. You ought not to feel proud; you ought to be afraid,

So, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient, with reverence and awe make every effort to insure your salvation, not simply as though I were with you, but all the more because I am away.

We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all??16 some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.

And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here,

save, snatching them out of the fire, and look on others with pity mixed with fear, loathing even the clothes their animal nature has stained.

Vehement

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

Zeal

for I know how willing you are to help in it; I boast of you for it to the people in Macedonia, telling them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has been a stimulus to most of them.

His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

While Paul waited for them at Athens, he was exasperated to see how idolatrous the city was.

Revenge

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit!

If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.

I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.

Approved

On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships,

But I pray to God that you may not do wrong??ot to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it.

Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men.

Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.