Most Popular Bible Verses in 2 Corinthians

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Verse ConceptsGrace Be To YouPeace To YouPeace And ComfortMercy And Grace

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Verse ConceptsJoy, Of The ChurchOptimism

This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.

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Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Qualities NeededCollectionsHeavenly RewardsReward, DivineSeedThriftCultivationReapingStingy PeopleReaping What You Sowsoaringsowing

Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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Verse ConceptsGone AwayIn Men's PresenceOne's DeedsAbsence

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

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Verse ConceptsAtonementCommitmentAmbassadorsImputationPropitiationSin, Deliverance From GodSociety, Positive Aspects OfGod Has ForgivenPeace Made Through ChristRighteousness imputedReconciliation with GodReconciliation

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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Verse ConceptsUnceasingAlways Being ActivePersistencerecognition

But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.

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Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divineA Short TimeShort Time For ActionRegrettingHurtSeasons Changinggrievinghurting

For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

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Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofEnjoyment, Lack OfBodyGod, Purpose OfMinistry, Qualifications ForPainSatan, Kingdom OfThornsWeakness, PhysicalBeneficial Afflictions For HumilityAfflictions, Benefits OfSatan, Work OfAfflictions Of MinistersDamage To The BodySigns Of Possible Demon PossessionSatanharassment

Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

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Verse ConceptsClayPower Through GodGod, Power OfPower, HumanRiches, SpiritualTreasureSpiritual TreasuresNot MeExcellencegreatnesspot

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

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Verse ConceptsAcademicsFellowship With ChristComplacencyProving, Through TestingTestingUnion With Christ, Significance OfCharacter Of WickedSelf ExaminationExamining YourselfJudging OurselvesThe FaithBelieving In YourselfTestsexams

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?

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Verse ConceptsMercy, Response To God'sPrayer, As Praise And ThanksgivingChurch, Examples OfThe Grace Given To Men

Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

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Verse ConceptsSelf DeceptionThoughtComparingBeing Without UnderstandingCommending OneselfCompetitionmeasurement

For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

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Verse ConceptsLiving Not For The MaterialPrinciples Of WarSpiritual Warfaremotivesperfectionism

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

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Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfHeaven, Inheritance OfVisionTransient WorldTransient WealthInvisible ThingsUnseenLife Being TemporaryThe World Being TemporaryBelievingTime ManagementEyesUnseen FaithKeeping FaithFocuseternity

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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Verse ConceptsGood Human AdviceOpinionsOne YearRight DesiresMan's Work FinishedCompetition

I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.

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Verse ConceptsPaul, Apostle To GentilesForgive One AnotherForgiving YourselfForgiving Others Who Hurt YouParents Being Wrong

For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

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Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinSeparationTouchWorldlinessSeparation From Evil PeopleComing Out From EvilWelcomed By GodPeople Being UncleanPollution ForbiddenBeing Differentwelcome

Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord.
And do not touch what is unclean;
And I will welcome you.

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Verse ConceptsRepentanceNo Loss

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.

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Verse ConceptsTypes Of ChristBrotherly LoveGod Will ComfortThe Gospel Of Salvation

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;

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Verse ConceptsFlesh, Description OfKnowing PeopleLiving Not For The MaterialPerspective

Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.

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Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleNames For HeavenSelf ConfidenceThe Number FourteenTen To Fourteen YearsGod Lifting PeopleThird PersonTaken To HeavenUs In GodHeavenIgnorant Of FactsVisualizationHeavenly VisionGoing To HeavenThe BodyThe Raptureweather

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven.

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Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceVisions From GodPaul's BoastingBoasting

Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

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Verse ConceptsStretching OutFirst Among The GentilesMaking Mistakes

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;

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Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsAccepting ChristDeliverance, Types OfHope, In GodRescueDeath Of A Family MemberDespairFamily DeathThe PastLoss Of A Loved Onerisk

who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

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Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePaul's BoastingBoasting

Again I say, let no one think me foolish; but if you do, receive me even as foolish, so that I also may boast a little.

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Verse ConceptsTruthLossCharacter Of SaintsAvoiding Deceit

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true;

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Verse ConceptsLiteracyWriting LettersMaking The Message ClearReading Other Matter

For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;

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Verse ConceptsBoasting ExcludedThe Gospel WorldwideBoastingpreaching

so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you, and not to boast in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.

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Verse ConceptsCollectionseagernessdiligenceAlmsgivingAltruismCharityRight DesiresPeople WillingMan's Work FinishedStaying StrongFinishing Strongaccomplishmentsaccomplishmentperformancefinishing

But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.

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Verse ConceptsServants Of The LorddisguisesServants Of PeoplePeople EndedRepaid For DeedsMinisterssurprises

Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

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Verse ConceptsCollectionsGiving, Advice OnGenerosity, Used TowardsSaints, Care For The PoorPeople WillingGiving Money To The ChurchAcceptance

For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

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Verse ConceptsAssentingDissentGod's TrustworthinessGod's Faithfulness

But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no.

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Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfIndividualismParticipation, In ChristPraise, Reasons ForCharacter Of SaintsGlorifying GodObeying The GospelServiceSharingThankfulness To OthersSpreading The GospelMinistry

Because of the proof given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all,

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Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingeagernessPlea Of Innocence

For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

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Verse ConceptsPeople Sending People

that is, to pass your way into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be helped on my journey to Judea.

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Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingThanksgiving, OfferedThank God!

But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus.

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Verse ConceptsLast DaysLordship, Human And DivineBrotherly LoveThe Fact Of That DayPaul's Boasting

just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

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Verse ConceptsHelping OthersHard WorkHardshipHelping Others In Needfairnessrelaxation

For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality—

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Verse ConceptsShining FacesMinistry, Nature OfMoses, Significance OfSpiritually DeadLight Of God's PeopleengravingGod Bestowing GloryMinistry

But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

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Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartAffection, ExpressingBeing Earnest For The ChurchdepthLove, For One AnotherPaul, Life OfWeepingAnguish, CauseI Am SadLove Exists Between PeopleFathers Loving CareGrieving With HopeNervousnesspressure

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

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Verse ConceptsPeople VisitingTrusting God's PlanDisappointmentAnxiety And StressGod's Plan For Us

In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;

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Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleAnonymityNot Knowing PeopleLiving OnDyingLiverecognition

as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death,

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Verse ConceptsGathering MuchLittle FoodPlenty For The PoorSurplus

as it is written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

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Verse ConceptsFaith, Growth InHope, In GodGrowth In GracePaul's BoastingKeeping FaithHope And FaithFaith Hope And LoveGrowingHope KjvBelieving In YourselfBoastinglimitationsothersmeasurement

not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,

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So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God.

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Verse ConceptsFicklenessLiving For The MaterialAssentingDissent

Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time?

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Verse ConceptsPeople ProvidingPlenty For The PoorSurplusAbundanceReciprocityHelping Those In NeedHelping Others In Needfairnesssales

at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;

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Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newGod, Unity Of

how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

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Verse ConceptsThose Who Deceived

Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?

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Verse ConceptsPaul's BoastingBoasting

For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.

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Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePeople Lacking AuthorityBoasting

What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

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Verse ConceptsCommendationOutward AppearanceHypocrites, Description OfAppearancesCommending OneselfOther References To The HeartAppearances of

We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.

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Verse ConceptsGrace, Description OfThe Grace Given To MenPraying For Otherssupplication

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

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Verse ConceptsAppealing To GodThe Witness Of God

But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

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Verse ConceptsHeraldPreaching, Content OfAssentingDissentGod Changing His MindIdentity In Christ

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but is yes in Him.

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Verse ConceptsHappinessHuman ComfortPeople RefreshedAppreciation For Pastors

For this reason we have been comforted.And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

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Verse Conceptsgrieving

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—in order not to say too much—to all of you.

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Verse ConceptsStabilityStanding FirmLording ItWorking TogetherRespecting Authority

Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

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Verse ConceptsCommendation

We have sent along with him the brother whose fame in the things of the gospel has spread through all the churches;

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Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newCondemnation, Causes OfCondemnation Of The WickedGod Bestowing GloryReconciliationMinistrycondemnation

For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

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Verse ConceptsShrewdnessTrickeryThose Who DeceivedOverloadDeception

But be that as it may, I did not burden you myself; nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I took you in by deceit.

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Verse ConceptsCovenant, the new

For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

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Verse ConceptsFoolish PeopleBeing Strongassertiveness

To my shame I must say that we have been weak by comparison.But in whatever respect anyone else is bold—I speak in foolishness—I am just as bold myself.

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Verse ConceptsThe Work Of FoolsPatient PeopleSufferingFools

For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.

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Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingEdification, Means OfBuilding Up The ChurchGod Seeing All PeopleMan Defendingcommunionreality

All this time you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and all for your upbuilding, beloved.

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Verse ConceptsLife In A Material WorldBoastingaccomplishments

Since many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also.

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Verse ConceptsDying With ChristSuffering For Christ's SakeLife With Christ

For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

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Verse ConceptsSpirit, Nature OfThose Who Deceived

I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus did not take any advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit and walk in the same steps?

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Verse ConceptsImperfect Nature Of Human Glory

For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

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Verse ConceptsThirstWearinessClothed With Good ThingsChanging DirectionRight DesiresTaken To Heaven

For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,

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Verse ConceptsBackbitingArguingBitingTumultdisagreementsJealousyPride, Evil OfSectsArgumentsStrifeAbsenceSlanderArrogance, In The ChurchQuarrelsWhispering Of EvilDislikingDisorder In The ChurchAvoiding JealousyProud PeopleCompetitiongossiping

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

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Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessAdultery, Results OfDisappointments, Examples OfHumilitySanctification, Means And ResultsSelf IndulgenceSexual Sin, Nature OfLasciviousnessInsensibilityAvoid ImmoralitySexual Immorality

I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.

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Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsFacesAccepting BeatingsMaking SlavesPatient PeopleAbusecheaters

For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.

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Verse ConceptsOptimismTrusting Other PeoplePeople Sending People

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

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Verse ConceptsChildren Of Abrahamcats

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

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Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divineComfort, Those In NeedDealing With Many Peoplerebuking

Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority,

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Verse ConceptsChristians, Names OfLike ChildrenReciprocityChristians Are Called Children

Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.

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Verse ConceptsObeying PeopleAnxiety And FearNervousness

His affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

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Verse ConceptsCorruption Of Bodyeternal life, experience ofMortalityClothed With Good ThingsNaked In ShameLife And Death

For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

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Verse ConceptsHonorReadinessMan Appointing

and not only this, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work, which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our readiness,

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Verse ConceptsProof, As EvidenceBenevolenceProofsBoasting

Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.

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Verse ConceptsDanger, PhysicalAdventureStealingTravelNations DescribedCities Under AttackFalse PeopleAntagonism From Jew And GentileIn The Heart Of The SeaFake Friendsrisk

I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;

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Verse ConceptsMoney Managementcriticismaccounting

taking precaution so that no one will discredit us in our administration of this generous gift;

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Verse ConceptsConfidence, Of ChristiansTrusting Other People

I rejoice that in everything I have confidence in you.

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Verse ConceptsVeilsAbolish, Temporary ThingsAbolish, Fulfilled By ChristImperfect Nature Of Human GloryAbrasion

and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

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Verse ConceptsPeople Willing

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord.

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Verse ConceptsAffectionEmotions

You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.

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Verse ConceptsGovernorsdamascus

In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,

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Verse ConceptsNakednessClothed With Good ThingsNaked In Shame

inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

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Verse ConceptsLove Fellow Christians!

Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

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Verse ConceptsFutureLast ThingsPeace, Divine In NtResurrection, Of BelieversGod Raising ChristOur ResurrectionRosesJesus DeathThe Presence Of God

knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you.

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Verse ConceptsEyes, Used Of GodMen PleasersSeeking HonourDoing The Right Thingprovidingcriticismacting

for we have regard for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

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Verse ConceptsAdulterersAdultery and DivorceThe Presence Of ChristPeople Forgiving OthersFor The Sake Of God's PeopleForgivenessforgiving othersForgiving Others Who Hurt YouGod's ForgivenessForgiveness Kjvforgiving

But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

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Verse ConceptsLife And DeathLife After Death

So death works in us, but life in you.

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Verse ConceptsAbundance, SpiritualAttitudes, to other peoplePoverty, Causes OfAbounding, Good ThingsSevere AfflictionsBlessings Of The Poortrails

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

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Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceFellow WorkersApostles, Descriptionpartnership

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

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Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersContempt, Examples OfEloquenceIn Men's PresenceWeaknessSpeech

For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.”

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Verse ConceptsIntegrityCoveting, prohibition ofDefraudingCheatingNo Room

Make room for us in your hearts; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.

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Verse ConceptsEnthusiasmAttitudes, to other peopleReadinessProvokingFervourZealousness, Examples OfPaul's BoastingPeople Willing

for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, namely, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

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Verse ConceptsLifestylesBoldness, To PeopleLiving For The MaterialA Bold FrontIn Men's PresenceSpiritual WarfareBoldnessmotives

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

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Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelism, motivation forDoorsOpen DoorsThe Gospel PreachedOpportunity

Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord,

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Verse ConceptsWritingReading Other MatterLoving EveryoneEclipseReading The Biblerecognition

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

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Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofJoy, Of The ChurchOptimismDistressTrusting Other PeopleHuman ComfortPaul's BoastingPrideholy BoldnessEncouragementJoy And HappinessBoldnessSpeechencouraging

Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

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Verse ConceptsCovetingGenerosity, HumanResentment, Against PeoplePeople Going BeforePeople PromisingCovetousness

So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness.

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Verse ConceptsGenuinenessLove, Nature OfSincerity, In Christian LivingComparisonsSincereityLove Exists Between PeopleMen's OrdersTests

I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

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Verse ConceptsAbundance, SpiritualThanksgivingThanking God For BenefitsThe Grace Given To MenFor The Sake Of God's PeopleGod's GraceThank YouThankfulness To OthersEverything Happening For A ReasonThanksgiving And GratitudeRenewal

For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God.

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Verse ConceptsVisitingPeople Visiting

But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again.

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Verse ConceptsBeginningActivity BegunMan's Work FinishedFinishing Strong

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.

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Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanSacrificial GivingChoosing ThingsGiving To The PoorFree Will

For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord,

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Verse ConceptsCommendationApostles, IdentficationFalse Teachers, Examples OfFoolish PeopleRelative GreatnessFalse ApostlesOutward CompulsionPraising Specific PeopleI Am Unimportant

I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody.

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Verse ConceptsUseless LabourPeople Sending PeoplePaul's Boasting

But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;

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Verse ConceptsOutward AppearanceThoughtAppearances ofperfectionism

You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

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Verse ConceptsFreedom, Abuse Of ChristianLibertinismRevengeSpiritual Warfaredisobediencefulfillment

and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

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Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingJoy, Of The ChurchMourning In RegretRight Desires

and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced even more.

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Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherNo Condemnationcondemnation

I do not speak to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

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Verse ConceptsWriting LettersObeying The Gospel

For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

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Verse ConceptsFearing Other People

for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

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otherwise if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—will be put to shame by this confidence.

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Verse ConceptsEarsHearing God's WordTaken To Heaven

was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.

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Verse ConceptsBlamelessness, In Christian LivingOffenceDo Not HinderMinistrynegativity

giving no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited,

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Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfAgreementFellowship, With GodGod, Living And Self sustainingHouse Of GodRelationshipsSelf RespectIndwelling Of The Holy SpiritNames And Titles For The ChurchThe Holy Spirit In The ChurchWalking With GodAvoiding IdolatryI Will Be Their God

Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
I will dwell in them and walk among them;
And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

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Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheIgnorant Of FactsThe Bodyweather

And I know how such a man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows—

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Verse ConceptsChristiansApostles, DescriptionApostles, Basis Of AuthorityLettersAll Believers Are SaintsLetters To Local ChurchesWhat God's Will IsChurch Of God

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia:

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Verse ConceptsControlling Your ThoughtsLife And DeathBeing SavedDeath Of Loved OneDeath Of A MotherBeing LostFeeling Lostatheismothers

to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

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Verse ConceptsPersecution, Forms OfSeafaringStoningShipwrecksOne DayBeating BelieversActing Three TimesIn The Heart Of The Sea

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.

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Verse ConceptsConfidence, In ChristAssurance in the life of faithGod's PromisesAnswered PromisesAmenWorldly WisdomThe promises of GodPromises concerningPromisesGods Plan

For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

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Verse ConceptsThree WitnessesWitnesses, LegalTwo Or ThreeActing Three TimesWitnessing

This is the third time I am coming to you. Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful?

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Verse ConceptsPainFriendship, Examples Ofrelaxationgoodbyes

I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went on to Macedonia.

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Verse ConceptsEstablishingStandingGod Establishes UsAnointed By Godpoop

Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

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Verse ConceptsConvincingevangelists, ministry ofHope, Nature OfPersuasionReverence, And ObedienceAmbassadors For ChristResponsibilityKnowing Godconsciencemotives

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

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Verse ConceptsSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfWitnessing, Importance OfBelievingThe Effects Of FaithSpeaking As From GodFaith KjvKeeping FaithHaving Faithspeakingbelief

But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,

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Verse ConceptsFaith, Growth IneagernessAbounding, Good ThingsGenerosity, Used TowardsKnowingLove Exists Between PeopleGraceGivingReciprocitySpeechgraciousness

But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.

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Verse ConceptsFree Of ChargeHumbling OneselfWhat Sin?Humble Yourselfpreachingordermyself

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

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Verse ConceptsAgony, DescriptionEnjoyment, Lack OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceDepression, CausesProvincesHeavy BurdensLife DespisedAfflictionsAnxiety And StressDespairHardshipBeing Overwhelmedignoranceexperiencepressureoverwhelmed

For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

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Verse ConceptsSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InHeresyAcceptance, Of The GospelSpirit BeingsThe Purity Of The GospelDifferent TeachingsFalse ChristsFake FriendsBeing DifferentBeing Unique

For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

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Verse ConceptsGoalsethics, incentives towardsPleasing GodMan's PurposesGone AwayAcceptanceAbsence

Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

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Verse ConceptsBoasting ExcludedPaul's BoastingIdentityBoasting

On behalf of such a man I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.

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Verse ConceptsThe Truth Of The GospelPaul's BoastingBoasting

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

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Verse ConceptsWhat Christian Should Do AlwaysBodyConfidence, Of ChristiansLife In A Material WorldNot DiscouragedLeaving God's PresenceOptimismCourage

Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

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Verse ConceptsApostles, Function In Early ChurchPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfAbundance, MaterialSuffering For Christ's SakeAfflictions Of MinistersBeating BelieversNearness Of DeathPeople Acting MadlyDeath Looms NearThose Who Toiled

Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

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Verse ConceptsInsultsPersecution, Nature OfWeakness, SpiritualInfirmitiesSuffering For Christ's SakeGod Giving StrengthGod Gives StrengthHard TasksGrace Being SufficientPersecutionWeaknessStaying Strong During Hard TimesHardship

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

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Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfOverestimationFoolish PeopleSeeing PeoplePaul's Boasting

For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.

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Verse ConceptsFalse Teachers, Examples OfRelative GreatnessFalse Apostles

For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.

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Verse ConceptsEloquenceAmateursPeople With KnowledgeSpeech

But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.

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Verse ConceptsPaul's BoastingBoastinglimitationsmeasurement

But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

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Verse ConceptsEternal PraiseNot LyingRelationship Of Father And Son

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

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Verse ConceptsCommendationLettersCommending OneselfPraising Specific Peoplea new beginningEclipse

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

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Verse ConceptsSympathyAdaptabilityWeakness

Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?

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Verse ConceptsFreedom from the LawCovenant, the newGod, Living And Self sustainingPaul, Teaching OfTabletsNames And Titles For The ChristianThe Spirit Of GodStones As MonumentsWriting On PeopleOther References To The HeartEclipseLiving For GodMinistryministering

being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

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Verse ConceptsSweet OdoursFragranceThe Gospel Of SalvationThose Not SavedBeing SavedBeing Lost

For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

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Verse ConceptsLove Exists Between PeopleWhy Do Others Do This?

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

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Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfHope, Nature OfFoolish PeopleBe Patient!patients

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.

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Verse ConceptsSalutations

All the saints greet you.

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Verse ConceptsMinistry, Qualifications ForBenevolenceWriting LettersSurplusministering

For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;

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Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofFellowship, In Christian ServiceLackMissionary WorkPeople ProvidingShortages

and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.

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Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofPower Through GodProofsSpeaking As From God

since you are seeking for proof of the Christ who speaks in me, and who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

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Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divinePaul, Life OfNot Sparing

I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,

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Verse ConceptsCauses of failure inPraying For Othersexams

Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved.

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Verse ConceptsApostles, Authority In ChurchHuman Authority, Nature OfAuthority, Responsibilities OfMinisters, Description OfSharpnessBuilding Up The ChurchWriting LettersAuthority Of DisciplesDestruction Of The ChurchGone AwayStrictnessIn Men's Presence

For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

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Verse ConceptsThose Against TruthAgainst The Truth

For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.

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Verse ConceptsGrowthJoy, Of The ChurchStrong PeoplePeople ImprovedYou Will Rejoice In SalvationWeaknessMaturityimprovement

For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete.

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Verse ConceptsGenuinenessexams

But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

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Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingBaskets, Uses OfRopesLowered From WindowsLowering People

and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.