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2 Corinthians 7:11

James Moffatt - New Testament

See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

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he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men.

Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.

Yes, and by more than his arrival, by the comfort which you had been to him; for he gave me such a report of how you longed for me, how sorry you were, and how eagerly you took my part, that it added to my delight.

as for outsiders, God will judge them. Expel the wicked from your company.

I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

trembling as you touch them, with loathing for the garment which the flesh has stained.

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below;

Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.

It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

Have nothing to do with the fruitless enterprises of the darkness; rather expose them.

Be angry but do not sin; never let the sun set upon your exasperation,

and I pray to God that you may not go wrong — not to prove I am a success, that is not the point, but that you should come right, even if I seemed to be a failure.

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

This censure from the majority is severe enough for the individual in question,

so that there may be no disunion in the body, but that the various members should have a common concern for one another.

And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime!

Granted. They were broken off — for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted.

While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his soul was irritated at the sight of the idols that filled the city.

(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)

Then glancing round him in anger and vexation at their obstinacy he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was quite restored.

but I am glad now — not glad that you were pained but glad that your pain induced you to repent. For you were pained as God meant you to be pained, and so you got no harm from what I did;

But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)

no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;




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