2 Corinthians 2:11

Forgiving the repentant guards the church from being outwitted by Satan, whose schemes Paul knows well. Refusing to forgive opens a door to the enemy.

Cross-references · 20

• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Eph 6:11–12Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• 2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• Luke 22:31The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• Rev 12:9–11The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• 2 Cor 11:14And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
• Matt 4:10Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”
• 1 Cor 7:5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
• Job 2:3Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
• 1 Chr 21:1–2Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
• John 13:2During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
• Zech 3:1–4He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
• 2 Tim 2:25in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• Rev 2:24But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
• Acts 1:25to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
• Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
• Job 1:11But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
• Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• Job 2:5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

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