2 Corinthians 7:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --

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  • 2 Cor 2:9 : 9 for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.
  • 2 Cor 7:8 : 8 because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent -- if even I did repent -- for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.
  • 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)
  • 1 Cor 5:1-2 : 1 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! -- 2 and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,
  • 2 Cor 2:3-4 : 3 and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all, 4 for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

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  • 2 Cor 7:11
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    11for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.

  • 2 Cor 12:13-14
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    13for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

    14Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

  • 2 Cor 7:7-9
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    7and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,

    8because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent -- if even I did repent -- for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.

    9I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

  • 2 Cor 2:2-5
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    2for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

    3and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

    4for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

    5And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

  • 2 Cor 7:13-16
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    13because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;

    14because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

    15and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;

    16I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.

  • 2 Cor 7:2-4
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    2receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;

    3not to condemn you do I say `it', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

    4great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

  • 2 Cor 2:7-10
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    7so that, on the contrary, `it is' rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

    8wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

    9for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

    10And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven `it', because of you -- in the person of Christ -- `I forgive it,'

  • 2 Cor 12:17-19
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    17any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?

    18I entreated Titus, and did send with `him' the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? -- did we not in the same steps?

    19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

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    7for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

    8Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13for not that for others release, and ye pressured, `do I speak,'

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

  • 2 Cor 11:11-12
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    11wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

    12and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

  • 2 Cor 8:20-21
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    20avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

    21providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

  • Phlm 1:18
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    18and if he did hurt to thee, or doth owe anything, this to me be reckoning;

  • 1 Cor 6:7
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    7Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

  • Gal 5:10
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    10I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1For, indeed, concerning the ministration that `is' for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,

  • 2 Cor 13:7
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    7and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

  • Phil 1:7
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    7according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and `in' the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

  • Phil 4:10
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    10And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

  • 2 Cor 8:16
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    16And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,