2 Corinthians 7:11

The Corinthians' godly sorrow produced earnest care, defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and a desire to set things right, proving their sincerity. True repentance bears visible, active fruit.

Cross-references · 40

• Rom 14:18For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
• 1 Tim 5:21–22I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.
• 2 Tim 2:15Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.
• Eph 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
• Ps 2:11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
• Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• Heb 12:15–16See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
• 1 Cor 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
• 1 Pet 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
• Jude 1:23save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
• 2 Cor 7:7and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced all the more.
• 2 Cor 2:6The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.
• Ps 42:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
• 2 Cor 6:4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
• 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Rom 11:20That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
• Heb 4:1Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.
• 2 Cor 9:2For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.
• 1 Pet 1:17Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
• Ps 35:13Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
• Phil 2:12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
• 1 Cor 12:25so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.
• Titus 3:8This saying is trustworthy. And I want you to emphasize these things, so that those who have believed God will take care to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are excellent and profitable for the people.
• Ps 38:9O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
• Acts 17:16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
• 2 Cor 13:7Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not that we will appear to have stood the test, but that you will do what is right, even if we appear to have failed.
• 1 Cor 5:2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
• Ps 69:9because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
• Ps 119:139My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.
• Isa 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
• 2 Sam 12:5–7David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
• John 2:17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
• Mark 9:43–48If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
• Ps 145:19He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
• Jer 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
• Prov 28:14Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Matt 5:29–30If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
• Gen 44:6–7When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.
• Ps 130:6My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

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