2 Corinthians 7:5

In Macedonia Paul found no rest, beset by conflicts outside and fears within. Even an apostle knew real anxiety and distress.

Cross-references · 22

• 2 Cor 2:13I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
• Deut 32:25Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
• Acts 20:1After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
• 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
• Gal 4:11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
• Matt 11:28–30“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• 2 Cor 11:23–30Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
• 2 Cor 4:8–12We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
• Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
• 2 Cor 2:3And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
• Gen 8:9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
• Isa 33:12The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
• 1 Cor 16:5But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.
• Gal 4:19–20My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you —
• Jer 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
• Jer 8:18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
• Jer 6:25Don’t go out into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror, are on every side.
• 2 Cor 1:16–17and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
• Jer 45:3‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’
• 1 Cor 15:31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
• 2 Cor 2:9For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
• 2 Cor 12:20–21For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

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