2 Corinthians 7:11

Moffatt

2 Corinthians 7:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Yes, and by more than his arrival, by the comfort which you had been to him; for he gave me such a report of how you longed for me, how sorry you were, and how eagerly you took my part, that it added to my delight.

so that there may be no disunion in the body, but that the various members should have a common concern for one another.

It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

Clearing

as for outsiders, God will judge them. Expel the wicked from your company.

Have nothing to do with the fruitless enterprises of the darkness; rather expose them.

In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.

Indignation

Then glancing round him in anger and vexation at their obstinacy he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was quite restored.

Be angry but do not sin; never let the sun set upon your exasperation,

Fear

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

Granted. They were broken off ??for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.

see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below;

trembling as you touch them, with loathing for the garment which the flesh has stained.

Vehement

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

Zeal

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)

While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his soul was irritated at the sight of the idols that filled the city.

Revenge

If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched.

I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

Approved

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

and I pray to God that you may not go wrong ??not to prove I am a success, that is not the point, but that you should come right, even if I seemed to be a failure.

he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men.

Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.