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 after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
• Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected 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 is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
• Mark 9:50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
• Phil 2:1–3If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
• 1 Jn 4:8–16He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
• 1 Pet 3:11Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
• 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 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Jas 3:17–18But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Jas 1:4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
• Phil 4:9The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
• Rom 16:20And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
• 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• Rom 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
• Acts 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
• Mark 10:49Jesus stood still, and said, “Call him.” They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”
• Rom 15:5–6Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
• Phil 4:2I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
• 2 Cor 1:4who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
• Gen 37:4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
• Phil 3:16Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.
• 1 Th 5:16Rejoice always.
• Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
• Luke 9:61Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
• Matt 5:48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
• 2 Th 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
• Eph 6:23Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Th 4:18Therefore comfort one another with these words.
• Acts 18:21but taking his leave of them, and saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.

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