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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2 Corinthians 7
Brit Hadashah 16 verses
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Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of , and secure holiness through the of .
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Proverbs 8:13 1 Thessalonians 4:7 1 Peter 2:11 Hebrews 4:1 2 Peter 1:4-8 1 John 3:3 James 4:8 Ezekiel 36:25-26 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 Psalm 51:10 Hebrews 12:28 Philippians 3:12-15 Psalm 119:9 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Psalm 19:9 2 Chronicles 19:9 Isaiah 1:16 Jeremiah 13:27 1 John 1:7 Matthew 5:8 Jeremiah 4:14 Isaiah 55:7 1 Thessalonians 3:13 Proverbs 16:6 1 Peter 1:22 Proverbs 30:12 1 Corinthians 6:20 2 Corinthians 1:20 1 Peter 5:10 Matthew 12:33 Matthew 23:25-26 Matthew 5:48 Ezekiel 18:30-32 1 John 1:9 Proverbs 20:9 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 11:39-40 Romans 5:20 Ephesians 2:3 Ephesians 4:12-13 Acts 9:31 Hebrews 12:23 -
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Make room for us in your hearts. There is not one of you whom we have wronged, not one to whom we have done harm, not one over whom we have gained any selfish advantage.
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Acts 20:33 2 Corinthians 12:14-18 1 Thessalonians 2:10 2 Corinthians 4:2 2 John 1:10 Luke 10:8 2 Corinthians 6:3-7 2 Corinthians 1:12 1 Thessalonians 2:3-6 1 Samuel 12:3-4 2 Corinthians 6:12-13 3 John 1:8-10 Philemon 1:12 Colossians 4:10 Matthew 10:40 Romans 16:18 Matthew 10:14 2 Corinthians 11:16 Philemon 1:17 2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 Philippians 2:29 2 Corinthians 11:9 Numbers 16:15 - 3 I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.
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I have great confidence in you: very loudly do I boast of you. I am filled with comfort: my overflows with joy amid all our affliction.
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2 Corinthians 1:4 2 Corinthians 3:12 Colossians 1:24 Philippians 2:17 2 Corinthians 7:6-7 2 Corinthians 6:10-11 1 Thessalonians 2:19 1 Thessalonians 3:7-9 2 Corinthians 2:14 Acts 5:41 Philippians 1:20 1 Thessalonians 2:2 2 Corinthians 9:2-4 Ephesians 6:19-20 2 Corinthians 8:24 2 Corinthians 1:14 James 1:2 Romans 5:3 2 Corinthians 10:1-2 2 Corinthians 11:21 1 Corinthians 1:4 -
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For even after our arrival in Macedonia we could get no relief such as human nature craves. We were greatly harassed; there were conflicts without and fears within.
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Deuteronomy 32:25 2 Corinthians 2:13 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Corinthians 4:8-12 Matthew 11:28-30 Jeremiah 20:10 Jeremiah 6:25 Genesis 8:9 2 Corinthians 11:23-30 1 Corinthians 16:5 2 Corinthians 1:16-17 Isaiah 33:12 Jeremiah 45:3 Job 18:11 1 Corinthians 15:31 Acts 20:1 1 Thessalonians 3:5 2 Corinthians 12:20-21 Galatians 4:11 Jeremiah 8:18 Galatians 4:19-20 2 Corinthians 2:3 -
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But He who comforts the depressed—even —comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not by his coming only,
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but also by the fact that he had felt comforted on your account, and by the report which he brought of your eager affection, of your grief, and of your jealousy on my behalf, so that I rejoiced more than ever.
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Hebrews 2:1 Colossians 2:5 2 Corinthians 5:2 Psalm 6:1-6 Jude 1:3 2 John 1:4 Judges 2:4-5 Psalm 38:18 Acts 11:23 Matthew 26:75 1 Thessalonians 3:8 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 James 4:9-10 Psalm 31:9-11 Matthew 5:4 Psalm 51:1 1 Thessalonians 3:6 Philippians 1:20 Proverbs 9:8-9 Luke 22:44 Jeremiah 31:18-20 James 5:17 Psalm 141:5 Psalm 126:5-6 2 Corinthians 2:3-4 Psalm 30:5 2 Corinthians 1:14 2 Corinthians 8:16 Romans 1:12 - 8 For if I gave you pain by that letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it then. I see that that letter, even though for a time it gave you pain, had a salutary effect.
- 9 Now I rejoice, not in your grief, but because the grief led to repentance; for you sorrowed with a Elohimly sorrow, which prevented you from receiving injury from us in any respect.
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For Elohimly sorrow produces repentance leading to , a repentance not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world finally produces death.
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Acts 11:18 2 Samuel 12:13 1 Kings 8:47-50 Acts 3:19 2 Timothy 2:25-26 Luke 18:13 Luke 15:10 Proverbs 17:22 Hebrews 12:17 2 Corinthians 12:21 1 Samuel 30:6 Matthew 21:28-32 Matthew 26:75 Proverbs 18:14 Jonah 4:9 Genesis 30:1 1 Kings 21:4 Job 33:27-28 Genesis 4:13-15 Jeremiah 31:9 Jonah 3:10 Ezekiel 7:16 2 Samuel 17:23 2 Samuel 13:4 Matthew 27:4-5 Jonah 3:8 Proverbs 15:13 Ezekiel 18:27-30 Proverbs 15:15 -
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For mark the effects of this very thing—your having sorrowed with a Elohimly sorrow—what earnestness it has called forth in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing affection, what jealousy, what meting out of justice! You have completely wiped away reproach from yourselves in the matter.
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2 Corinthians 7:7 Mark 3:5 Acts 17:16 Isaiah 66:2 Proverbs 28:14 1 Corinthians 12:25 Hebrews 12:15-16 Mark 9:43-48 2 Corinthians 2:6 2 Corinthians 13:7 Revelation 3:19 Romans 11:20 Philippians 2:12 2 Corinthians 6:4 2 Samuel 12:5-7 Song of Solomon 8:6 Genesis 44:6-7 Romans 14:18 Jeremiah 31:18-20 2 Timothy 2:15 Psalm 130:6 Proverbs 14:16 1 Peter 2:2 Daniel 6:14 1 Corinthians 5:2 Zechariah 12:10-14 2 Corinthians 7:1 Titus 3:8 Psalm 35:13 Psalm 145:19 Ephesians 5:11 1 Corinthians 5:13 1 Timothy 5:21-22 Psalm 119:139 Nehemiah 5:6-13 Isaiah 26:8 Job 42:6 Ephesians 4:26 Psalm 69:9 2 Corinthians 9:2 Jude 1:23 John 2:17 Matthew 5:29-30 Psalm 42:1 Nehemiah 13:25 Hebrews 4:1 Psalm 38:9 2 Corinthians 7:9 1 Peter 1:17 Psalm 2:11 - 12 Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender, nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong, but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of .
- 13 For this reason we feel comforted; and—in addition to this our comfort—we have been filled with all the deeper joy at Titus’s joy, because his has been set at rest by you all.
- 14 For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken the to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you has turned out to be the .
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And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with which you welcomed him.
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Philippians 2:12 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Thessalonians 3:14 Ezra 9:4 Colossians 3:12 Genesis 43:30 Isaiah 66:2 2 Corinthians 6:12 1 John 3:17 Psalm 119:120 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 2 Corinthians 10:5-6 Philippians 1:8 Psalm 2:11 Song of Solomon 5:4 Ezra 10:9 Hosea 13:1 Job 21:6 1 Kings 3:26 Ephesians 6:5 Acts 16:29 -
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I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.
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