2 Corinthians 7:3

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Summary

2 Corinthians 7:3

I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

To condemn

For

2 Corinthians 6:11

Ye

To die

Ruth 1:16

1 Thessalonians 2:8

Bible References

To condemn

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

For

Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

Ye

Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

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

For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

To die

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;

even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.