2 Corinthians 11:29

Paul so identifies with believers that he feels their weakness and burns with concern when any are led into sin. It matters because godly leadership shares deeply in the struggles of the flock.

Cross-references · 34

• 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
• 1 Cor 8:13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
• Gal 4:8–20Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
• Neh 5:6–13When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,
• Neh 13:15–20In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
• 2 Cor 13:9In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.
• 2 Cor 2:4–5For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
• 2 Cor 7:5–6For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.
• 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
• Gal 2:4–6This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
• Gal 3:1–3O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
• Gal 1:7–10which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
• Gal 6:2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
• Gal 5:2–4Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
• Gal 2:14When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
• 1 Th 3:5–8For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.
• 1 Cor 15:36You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
• 1 Cor 15:12–34But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
• 1 Cor 5:1–5It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
• 1 Cor 11:22Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
• 1 Cor 6:5–7I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?
• 1 Cor 12:26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
• 1 Cor 6:15–18Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
• John 2:17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
• Rom 15:1We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
• Rom 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
• 2 Jn 1:10–11If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.
• Jude 1:3–4Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.
• Rev 2:2I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
• Rev 3:15–18I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!
• Num 25:6–11Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
• Rev 2:20But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
• Ezra 9:1–3After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
• Neh 13:23–25In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

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