2 Corinthians 7:4

A Letter That Caused Sadness

³ I am not saying this to blame you, for as I have already said, I hold you in my heart to live together and to die together. ⁴ Great is my faith in you; great is my cheerful assurance in you. I am filled with comfort; in spite of all my troubles, my heart is overflowing with joy. ⁵ For even after I reached Macedonia, my flesh had no rest, but I was troubled on every hand. Without were fights; within were, fears.

Most High

2 Corinthians 1:4

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

2 Corinthians 3:12

Therefore, cherishing such a hope, I use great freedom of speech.

Philippians 2:17

Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

Acts 5:41

So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;

Romans 5:3

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

1 Corinthians 1:4

I am always thanking God on your behalf, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

2 Corinthians 1:14

as some indeed did recognize in part at last, that I am your cause of boasting, just as you will be mine on the Day of Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 2:14

But thanks be to God, who in every place is leading me in the train of Christ's triumph, and is making manifest through me the knowledge of him, an odor of incense everywhere.

2 Corinthians 6:10-11

as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

2 Corinthians 7:6-7

But the God who comforts the down-hearted comforted me by the coming of Titus,

2 Corinthians 8:24

So show to the churches an evidence of your love, and a justification to these brothers of my boasting about you.

2 Corinthians 9:2-4

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

2 Corinthians 10:1-2

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

2 Corinthians 11:21

I say that I was weak, and yet for whatever reason any one is bold (I speak in mere folly) I too am bold.

Ephesians 6:19-20

and for me, that utterance may be given me to open my mouth boldly, and to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador,

Philippians 1:20

So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what is my hope, or joy? What is the victor's wreath in which I exult? What but your own selves in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming!

1 Thessalonians 3:7-9

I have been comforted, my brothers, in regard to you, in spite of all my distress and affliction over your faith.

James 1:2

My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy,