2 Corinthians 13:11

Paul closes with exhortations to rejoice, be restored, be encouraged, agree, and live in peace, promising that the God of love and peace will be with them. It matters because pursuing unity and holiness brings the experienced presence of God.

Cross-references · 40

• Heb 12:14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
• Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Rom 15:33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
• Rom 12:18If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
• Mark 9:50Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
• Phil 2:1–3If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
• 1 Jn 4:8–16He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
• 1 Pet 3:11Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
• 2 Cor 13:9For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
• 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• Jas 3:17–18But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Jas 1:4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
• Phil 4:9Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
• Rom 16:20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
• 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
• 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• Rom 15:13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
• John 17:23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
• Acts 15:29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
• Mark 10:49And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
• Rom 15:5–6Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
• Phil 4:2I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
• 2 Cor 1:4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
• Gen 37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
• Phil 3:16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
• 1 Th 5:16Rejoice evermore.
• Matt 1:23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
• Luke 9:61And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
• Heb 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
• Matt 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
• 2 Th 3:16Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
• Eph 6:23Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Th 4:18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
• Acts 18:21But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

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