Biblia Todo Logo
Cross References

- Advertisements -




2 Corinthians 7:7

Weymouth NT

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.

See the chapter Copy

34 Cross References  

and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, how He had said, »Before the cock crows you will three times disown me.« And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly.

»Blessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.«

while He –an agony of distress having come upon Him– prayed all the more with intense earnestness, and His sweat became like clots of blood dropping on the ground.

On getting there he was delighted to see the grace which God had bestowed; and he encouraged them all to remain, with fixed resolve, faithful to the Lord.

in other words that while I am among you we may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith, yours and mine.

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord.

He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For in writing to you I have also this object in view–to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be obedient in every respect.

For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it our dwelling which comes from Heaven–

But He who comforts the depressed –even God– comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not by his coming only,

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.

But thanks be to God that He inspires the heart of Titus with the same deep interest in you;

in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death.

For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ.

But now that Timothy has recently come back to us from you, and has brought us the happy tidings of your faith and love, and has told us how you still cherish a constant and affectionate recollection of us, and are longing to see us as we also long to see you–

For now life is for us life indeed, since you are standing fast in the Lord.

For this reason we ought to pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away from them.

Elijah was a man with a nature similar to ours, and he earnestly prayed that there might be no rain: and no rain fell on the land for three years and six months.

It is an intense joy to me to have found some of your children living true Christian lives, in obedience to the command which we have received from the Father.

Dear friends, since I am eager to begin a letter to you on the subject of our common salvation, I find myself constrained to write and cheer you on to the vigorous defense of the faith delivered once for all to God's people.




Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements