2 Corinthians 7:11

New American Bible - revised edition

For behold what earnestness this godly sorrow has produced for you, as well as readiness for a defense, and indignation, and fear, and yearning, and zeal, and punishment. In every way you have shown yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:25

So I reprimanded and cursed them; I beat some of their men and pulled out their hair; and I adjured them by God: “You shall not marry your daughters to their sons nor accept any of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves!

Job 42:6

Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes. Job’s Restoration.

Psalm 119:139

I am consumed with rage, because my foes forget your words.

Psalm 130:6

My soul looks for the Lord more than sentinels for daybreak. More than sentinels for daybreak,

Psalm 145:19

He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 2:11

Serve the Lord with fear; exult with trembling, Accept correction lest he become angry and you perish along the way when his anger suddenly blazes up. Blessed are all who take refuge in him!

Psalm 35:13

Yet I, when they were ill, put on sackcloth, afflicted myself with fasting, sobbed my prayers upon my bosom.

Psalm 38:9

I am numb and utterly crushed; I wail with anguish of heart.

Psalm 42:1

For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites.

Psalm 69:9

I have become an outcast to my kindred, a stranger to my mother’s children.

Proverbs 14:16

The wise person is cautious and turns from evil; the fool is reckless and gets embroiled.

Proverbs 28:14

Happy those who always fear; but those who harden their hearts fall into evil.

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; For Love is strong as Death, longing is fierce as Sheol. Its arrows are arrows of fire, flames of the divine.

Isaiah 26:8

The course of your judgments, Lord, we await; your name and your memory are the desire of our souls.

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all these things when all of them came to be—oracle of the Lord. This is the one whom I approve: the afflicted one, crushed in spirit, who trembles at my word.

Daniel 6:14

To this they replied, “Daniel, one of the Jewish exiles, has paid no attention to you, O king, or to the prohibition you signed; three times a day he offers his prayer.”

Mark 3:5

Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored.

John 2:17

His disciples recalled the words of scripture, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

Acts 17:16

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he grew exasperated at the sight of the city full of idols.

Romans 11:20

That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but stand in awe.

Romans 14:18

whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by others.

Romans 3:5

But if our wickedness provides proof of God’s righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath?

1 Corinthians 12:25

so that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.

1 Corinthians 5:13

God will judge those outside. “Purge the evil person from your midst.”

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are inflated with pride. Should you not rather have been sorrowful? The one who did this deed should be expelled from your midst.

2 Corinthians 13:7

But we pray to God that you may not do evil, not that we may appear to have passed the test but that you may do what is right, even though we may seem to have failed.

2 Corinthians 2:6

This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person,

2 Corinthians 6:4

on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

2 Corinthians 7:7

and not only by his arrival but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged in regard to you, as he told us of your yearning, your lament, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

2 Corinthians 7:9

I rejoice now, not because you were saddened, but because you were saddened into repentance; for you were saddened in a godly way, so that you did not suffer loss in anything because of us.

2 Corinthians 9:2

for I know your eagerness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been ready since last year; and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger,

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them,

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.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

not to take advantage of or exploit a brother in this matter, for the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you before and solemnly affirmed.

1 Timothy 5:20

Reprimand publicly those who do sin, so that the rest also will be afraid.

2 Timothy 2:15

Be eager to present yourself as acceptable to God, a workman who causes no disgrace, imparting the word of truth without deviation.

Titus 3:8

This saying is trustworthy. Advice to Titus. I want you to insist on these points, that those who have believed in God be careful to devote themselves to good works; these are excellent and beneficial to others.

Hebrews 4:1

Therefore, let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity.

1 Peter 1:17

Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,

1 Peter 2:2

like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation,

Jude 1:23

save others by snatching them out of the fire; on others have mercy with fear, abhorring even the outer garment stained by the flesh. Doxology.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.