These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Corinthians 2
Brit Hadashah 17 verses
- 1 But, so far as I am concerned, I have resolved not to have a painful visit the next time I come to see you.
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For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden my , but the very persons to whom I give pain?
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- 3 And I write this to you in order that when I come I may not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy, confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy of you all.
- 4 For with many tears I write to you, and in deep suffering and depression of , not in order to grieve you, but in the of showing you how brimful my is with for you.
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Now if any one has caused sorrow, it has been caused not so much to me, as in some degree—for I have no wish to exaggerate—to all of you.
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In the case of such a person the punishment which was inflicted by the majority of you is enough.
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So that you may now take the opposite course, and forgive him rather and comfort him, for he should perhaps be driven to despair by his excess of grief.
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Ephesians 4:32 Proverbs 1:12 2 Corinthians 5:4 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 2 Thessalonians 3:6 1 Corinthians 15:54 Isaiah 28:7 Psalm 124:3 Galatians 6:1-2 Psalm 56:1-2 2 Corinthians 7:10 Colossians 3:13 Philippians 2:27 Psalm 57:3 Proverbs 17:22 1 Thessalonians 4:13 Hebrews 12:12-15 Psalm 21:9 2 Samuel 20:19-20 -
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I beg you therefore fully to reinstate him in your .
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- 9 For in writing to you I have also this object in view—to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be obedient in every respect.
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When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it; for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has always been for your sakes in the presence of ,
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for should gain an advantage over us. For we are not ignorant of his devices.
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Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News about the , even though in the Lord’s providence a door stood open before me,
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- 13 yet, obtaining no relief for my because I did not find our brother Titus, I bade them farewell and went on into Macedonia.
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But to be the thanks who in ever heads our triumphal procession, and by our hands waves in every place that sweet incense, the knowledge of Him.
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Romans 8:37 2 Corinthians 9:15 Ephesians 5:2 Romans 6:17 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 Song of Solomon 1:3 2 Corinthians 8:16 Psalm 106:47 Colossians 1:6 Romans 15:19 Colossians 1:23 Philippians 4:18 Colossians 2:15 Psalm 148:14 1 Thessalonians 3:9 Ephesians 5:20 2 Corinthians 1:11 Revelation 7:12 1 Corinthians 15:37 - 15 For we are a fragrance of grateful to in those whom He is saving and in those who are perishing;
- 16 to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death, and to the others an odor of life predictive of life. And for such service as this who is competent?
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We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of Elohim’s Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by , in Elohim’s presence and in communion with , so we speak.
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2 Corinthians 4:2 2 Corinthians 1:12 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Hebrews 11:27 2 John 1:7-11 2 Peter 2:1-3 Acts 20:27 2 Timothy 4:3-4 Revelation 12:9 Matthew 24:24 Acts 20:20 Revelation 2:20 1 Corinthians 5:8 Revelation 2:14-15 Revelation 19:20 Titus 1:11 Jeremiah 5:31 2 Timothy 2:6-18 Jeremiah 23:27-32 1 Timothy 1:19-20 Jude 1:4 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 1 John 4:1