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 as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
• 1 Cor 8:13Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
• Gal 4:8–20However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
• Neh 5:6–13I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
• Neh 13:15–20In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.
• 2 Cor 13:9For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
• 2 Cor 2:4–5For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
• 2 Cor 7:5–6For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
• 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
• Gal 2:4–6This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
• Gal 3:1–3Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
• Gal 1:7–10and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
• Gal 6:2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
• Gal 5:2–4Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
• Gal 2:14But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
• 1 Th 3:5–8For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
• 1 Cor 15:36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
• 1 Cor 15:12–34Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among 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 such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
• 1 Cor 11:22What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly, and put them to shame who don’t have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
• 1 Cor 6:5–7I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
• 1 Cor 12:26When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
• 1 Cor 6:15–18Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
• John 2:17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”
• Rom 15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses 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, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,
• Jude 1:3–4Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• Rev 2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
• Rev 3:15–18“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
• Num 25:6–11Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
• Rev 2:20But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
• Ezra 9:1–3Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
• Neh 13:23–25In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

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