2 Corinthians 2:9

New American Bible - revised edition

For this is why I wrote, to know your proven character, whether you were obedient in everything.

Cross References

Exodus 16:4

Then the Lord said to Moses: I am going to rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not.

2 Corinthians 10:6

and we are ready to punish every disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote as I did so that when I came I might not be pained by those in whom I should have rejoiced, confident about all of you that my joy is that of all of you.

2 Corinthians 2:4

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you might be pained but that you might know the abundant love I have for you. The Offender.

2 Corinthians 2:8

Therefore, I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

2 Corinthians 8:2

for in a severe test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their profound poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

2 Corinthians 8:24

So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to them.

Deuteronomy 13:3

saying, “Let us go after other gods,” whom you have not known, “and let us serve them,” and the sign or wonder foretold to you comes to pass,

Deuteronomy 8:16

and fed you in the wilderness with manna, a food unknown to your ancestors, that he might afflict you and test you, but also make you prosperous in the end.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember how for these forty years the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the wilderness, so as to test you by affliction, to know what was in your heart: to keep his commandments, or not.

Philippians 2:12

So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Philippians 2:22

But you know his worth, how as a child with a father he served along with me in the cause of the gospel.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

If anyone does not obey our word as expressed in this letter, take note of this person not to associate with him, that he may be put to shame.

Philemon 1:21

With trust in your compliance I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.