2 Corinthians 7
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Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

therefore.

2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yes, and in him Amen, to the …

2 Corinthians 6:17,18 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, …

Romans 5:20,21 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where …

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering …

2 Peter 1:4-8 Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that …

let.

Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto …

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is …

Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before …

Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of …

Ezekiel 18:30-32 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according …

Ezekiel 36:25,26 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: …

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree …

Matthew 23:25,26 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean …

Luke 11:39,40 And the Lord said to him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside …

Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men…

James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, …

1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through …

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain …

1 John 1:7,9 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship …

1 John 3:3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

filthiness.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: …

Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …

1 Corinthians 6:20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, …

Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the …

1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly…

perfecting.

Matthew 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Ephesians 4:12,13 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for …

Philippians 3:12-15 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: …

1 Thessalonians 3:13 To the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before …

1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written …

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory …

in.

2 Chronicles 19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of the …

Psalm 19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of …

Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the …

Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD …

Acts 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and …

Hebrews 12:28 Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, …

Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

Receive.

2 Corinthians 11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool …

Matthew 10:14,40 And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you …

Luke 10:8 And into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such …

Philippians 2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such …

Colossians 4:10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner salutes you, and Marcus, sister's …

Philemon 1:12 Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels:

2 John 1:10 If there come any to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him …

3 John 1:8-10 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellow helpers …

we have wronged.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …

2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in …

2 Corinthians 6:3-7 Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed…

2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man…

2 Corinthians 12:14-18 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not …

Numbers 16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said to the LORD, Respect not you their …

1 Samuel 12:3,4 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before …

Acts 20:33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly…

1 Thessalonians 2:3-6,10 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile…

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not …

I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

my boldness.

2 Corinthians 3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

2 Corinthians 6:11 O you Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.

2 Corinthians 10:1,2 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, …

2 Corinthians 11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. However, …

Ephesians 6:19,20 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my …

Philippians 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing …

1 Thessalonians 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, …

great.

2 Corinthians 1:14 As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, …

2 Corinthians 9:2-4 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you …

1 Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which …

1 Thessalonians 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even …

I am filled.

2 Corinthians 7:6,7 Nevertheless God, that comforts those that are cast down, comforted …

2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort …

2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, …

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; …

Acts 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that …

Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that …

Philippians 2:17 Yes, and if I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, …

Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which …

1 Thessalonians 3:7-9 Therefore, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our affliction …

James 1:2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

when.

2 Corinthians 1:16,17 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia …

2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: …

Acts 20:1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called to him the disciples, …

1 Corinthians 16:5 Now I will come to you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for …

our.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, …

2 Corinthians 11:23-30 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors …

Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned …

Isaiah 33:12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up …

Jeremiah 8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Jeremiah 45:3 You did say, Woe is me now! for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow; …

Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest…

troubled.

2 Corinthians 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, …

Job 18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

Jeremiah 6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of …

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say …

without.

Deuteronomy 32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young …

1 Corinthians 15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.

fears.

2 Corinthians 2:3,9 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow …

2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

2 Corinthians 12:20,21 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, …

Galatians 4:11,19,20 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed on you labor in vain…

1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your …

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

but.

Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …

Romans 1:12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual …

Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, …

1 Thessalonians 3:8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking in truth, …

when.

2 Corinthians 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that you sorrowed after a godly sort, …

2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of …

Psalm 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove …

Proverbs 9:8,9 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he …

earnest.

2 Corinthians 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed on with our …

2 Corinthians 8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart …

Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was …

Philippians 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing …

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which …

James 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed …

Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common …

mourning.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented …

Judges 2:4,5 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words …

Psalm 6:1-6 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot …

Psalm 30:5 For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping …

Psalm 31:9-11 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed …

Psalm 38:18 For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness…

Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy…

Jeremiah 31:18-20 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised …

Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said to him, Before …

James 4:9,10 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to …

fervent.

2 Corinthians 1:14 As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, …

2 Corinthians 2:3,4 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow …

1 Thessalonians 3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you to us, and brought us good tidings …

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

repentance.

2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and …

2 Samuel 12:13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan …

1 Kings 8:47-50 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were …

Job 33:27,28 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that …

Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them…

Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains …

Ezekiel 18:27-30 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he …

Jonah 3:8,10 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily …

Matthew 21:28-32 But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the …

Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said to him, Before …

Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels …

Luke 18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as …

Acts 3:19 Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out…

Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified …

2 Timothy 2:25,26 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure …

the sorrow. The sorrow of carnal men about worldly objects, loss of fortune, fame, or friends; which, being separated from the fear and love of God, and faith in his providence and mercy, frequently drinks up their spirits, breaks their proud, rebellious hearts, or drives them to lay desperate hands on themselves.

Genesis 4:13-15 And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear…

Genesis 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied …

1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning …

2 Samuel 13:4 And he said to him, Why are you, being the king's son, lean from …

2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled …

1 Kings 21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the …

Proverbs 15:13,15 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the …

Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit …

Jonah 4:9 And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And …

Matthew 27:4,5 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. …

Hebrews 12:17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the …

For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

that.

2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed …

Isaiah 66:2 For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have …

Zechariah 12:10-14 And I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of …

1 Corinthians 5:2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that …

carefulness. See on ver.

2 Corinthians 7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation with which he …

1 Corinthians 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members …

Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that you affirm constantly…

clearing.

Genesis 44:6,7 And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words…

1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judges. Therefore put away from among …

Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but …

1 Timothy 5:21,22 I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels…

indignation.

2 Samuel 12:5-7 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said …

Nehemiah 5:6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Nehemiah 13:25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of …

Job 42:6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Jeremiah 31:18-20 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised …

Daniel 6:14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with …

Mark 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved …

Ephesians 4:26 Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath:

fear.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …

Psalm 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.

Proverbs 28:14 Happy is the man that fears always: but he that hardens his heart …

Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by …

Philippians 2:12 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence …

Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering …

Hebrews 12:15,16 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …

1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …

Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even …

vehement.

Psalm 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.

Psalm 42:1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.

Psalm 130:6 My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: …

Psalm 145:19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear …

Songs 8:6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm: for love is …

Isaiah 26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; …

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may …

zeal.

2 Corinthians 9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you …

Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of …

Psalm 119:139 My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words.

John 2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your …

Acts 17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred …

revenge.

Psalm 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I …

Matthew 5:29,30 And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you…

Mark 9:43-48 And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to …

Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

approved.

2 Corinthians 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in …

2 Corinthians 13:7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear …

Romans 14:18 For he that in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and …

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not …

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

inward affection is. Gr. bowels are.

2 Corinthians 6:12 You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels.

Genesis 43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn on his brother: and …

1 Kings 3:26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for …

Songs 5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels …

Philippians 1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels …

Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels …

1 John 3:17 But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, …

the obedience.

2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of …

2 Corinthians 10:5,6 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself …

Philippians 2:12 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence …

2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this letter, note that man, and …

with. See on ver.

2 Corinthians 7:10,11 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented …

Ezra 9:4 Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of …

Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together …

Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

Psalm 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psalm 119:120 My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.

Isaiah 66:2 For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have …

Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when …

Acts 16:29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and …

Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to …

Philippians 2:12 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence …

I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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