2 Corinthians 7:3

Paul speaks not to condemn but out of deep love, holding the Corinthians in his heart to live and die together. His correction flows from steadfast affection.

Cross-references · 11

• Phil 1:8–9For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
• 2 Cor 6:11–12Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
• 2 Cor 12:15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
• Ruth 1:16–17Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
• 1 Th 2:8Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
• 2 Cor 7:12So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
• 2 Cor 13:10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
• 2 Cor 3:2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
• 2 Cor 2:4–5For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• 2 Cor 11:11Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

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