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

Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.

For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For

Our month stands open to you, O Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged.

Ye

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and acknowledged by all men:

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows.

And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

To die

And Ruth will say, Thou shalt not urge upon me to forsake thee, to turn back from after thee: for where thou shalt go, I will go; and where thou shalt lodge, I will lodge: thy people my people, and thy God my God:

So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.