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 he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
• 1 Tim 5:21–22I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• 2 Tim 2:15Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
• Eph 5:11Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
• Ps 2:11Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Heb 12:15–16looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• 1 Cor 5:13But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”
• 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
• Jude 1:23and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
• 2 Cor 7:7and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.
• 2 Cor 2:6This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
• Ps 42:1For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
• 2 Cor 6:4but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Rom 11:20True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
• Heb 4:1Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
• 2 Cor 9:2for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
• 1 Pet 1:17If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
• Ps 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
• Phil 2:12So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
• 1 Cor 12:25that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
• Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
• Ps 38:9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
• Acts 17:16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
• 2 Cor 13:7Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
• 1 Cor 5:2You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
• Ps 69:9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
• Ps 119:139My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• 2 Sam 12:5–7David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!
• John 2:17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”
• Mark 9:43–48If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
• Ps 145:19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
• Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Prov 28:14Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Matt 5:29–30If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
• Gen 44:6–7He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
• Ps 130:6My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

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