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 record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 6:11–12O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
• 2 Cor 12:15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
• Ruth 1:16–17And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
• 1 Th 2:8So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
• 2 Cor 7:12Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
• 2 Cor 13:10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
• 2 Cor 3:2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
• 2 Cor 2:4–5For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
• 2 Cor 11:11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

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