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2 Corinthians 7:7

James Moffatt - New Testament

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.

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Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints;

It makes me sigh indeed, this yearning to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation,

I was overjoyed to find some of your children leading the true Life, as we were commanded to do by the Father.

Elijah was a man with a nature just like our own; but he offered prayer that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain;

We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away.

It is life to me now, if you stand firm in the Lord.

But when Timotheus reached me a moment ago, on his return from you, bringing me the good news of your faith and love and of how you always remember me kindly, longing to see me as I long to see you,

for although I am absent in body I am with you in spirit, and it is a joy to note your steadiness and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

my eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. Whether that means life or death, no matter!

Thanks be to God who has inspired Titus with an interest in you equal to my own;

For my aim in writing was simply to test you, to see if you were absolutely obedient.

as you have partly understood the meaning of my life, namely that I am your source of pride (as you are mine) on the Day of our Lord Jesus.

or, in other words, that I may be encouraged by meeting you, I by your faith and you by mine.

When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

he fell into an agony and prayed with greater intensity, his sweat dropping to the ground like clots of blood.]

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said, that 'before the cock crows you will disown me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled.

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!

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

But the God who comforts the dejected comforted me by the arrival of Titus.

In fact, if I did pain you by that letter, I do not regret it. I did regret it when I discovered that my letter had pained you even for the time being,




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